Homeland Security Chairman On ISIS Terror Attack: U.S. Needs More FBI Agents To Stop Islamic Terror

House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) said this week that the U.S. needed more FBI personnel to stop people from being radicalized into becoming terrorists after a man who recently converted to Islam declared his allegiance to ISIS and murdered 14 people in New Orleans this week.

Green’s remarks come after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a rented truck to mow down people in New Orleans’ French Quarter before he got out and opened fire on law enforcement.

“What our FBI needs is more resources,” Green told CBS News on Friday morning.

He said that agents need to be looking for individuals who are online and becoming radicalized inside the U.S.

“The fusion centers do a pretty good job most of the time, but a situation like this where a guy gets radicalized, we don’t know exactly when, and then is turned on to do a mission like this, that’s the information that’s going to require boots on the ground all over the country, in places where people get radicalized,” he said.

“And they pulled back after — initially, after 9/11, the FBI was everywhere looking, they caught those guys in upstate New York by doing that human intelligence,” he continued. “But they’ve pulled back over the past several years, and they need to put that back into place.”

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