FBI Director: 'I Have Home-Grown Violent Extremist Investigations in Every Single State'

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Feb. 26, 2015

Flashback: FBI Official: We Need to "Keep Fear Alive" to Justify Terror Budget"Counterterrorism remains the bureau's top priority, FBI Director James Comey told a gathering in Washington on Wednesday -- the same day federal authorities in New York charged three immigrants, all Muslim, with conspiracy to provide material support to the Islamic State.

"I have home-grown violent extremist investigations in every single state," Comey told a meeting of state attorneys general. "Until a few weeks ago, there was (sic) 49 states. Alaska had none, which I couldn't quite figure out, but Alaska has now joined the group. So we have investigations of people in various stages of radicalizing in all 50 states."

Comey said the terror threat has "metastasized" in recent years, as the "progeny of Al Qaida take root" in safe havens such as Syria, Iraq, and Libya, using the Internet and social media to spread their propaganda and recruitment "at the speed of light."

"So why do I tell you this?" Comey asked. "To explain to you why this remains at the top of the FBI's list, and to explain to you why the conversations I have with our state and local partners in all 50 states matters so much today.

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