congressman mike turner has been briefed on what s going on. congressman, is there any doubt at all left that this is an isis planned operation? we have to continue to investigate, but obviously isis has claimed credit. president hollande has identified it as an isis threat. one thing we know is that isis will continue to be a threat, both to allies and to the united states. in all of the briefings that we received, they ve been identified as a national security threat, but you don t need a classified briefing to know this throughout the press and the united states, there have been incidents of the fbi identifying those in touch with isis and attempting to plan attacks against the united states. we know they re trying that against our allies also. even though we might take down some of those attempts, even if we find 100 of them and thwart them, it just takes one tragedy, such as we saw in paris for a very sad occurrence. the incrypted communications
school he wrote my name causes national security alerts with what does yours do? obviously he was trying to be funny and cute. there s a sensitivity. absolutely. it s a sensitivity we should be alurt to. if we just generalize because someone has a muslim or arab name and assume he s in a bad category not only might we cause damage to that person but we unfairly target these folks. i applaud what the joint terrorism task force and local law enforcement are doing. they re not leaping to conclusions. they re saying they think this is a terrorist inspired act. but they re not labelling it isis until they can get the proof. maybe there won t be proof. we know the fbi is going through all of his computers, his cell phones anything that he had there. but you and i have discussed this tom, it s possible he was using incrypted communications and the fbi or the nsa for that matter they re not going to be able to crack that. if he was using it.
they are, lots of cases, most cases, sort of motivated by their own sense of what s pate patriotic. i don t think anyone should begrudge anyone, their political beliefs. it s not a question about whether they re conservative, anti-government, don t believe that gun control is legal, any of that. what gets scary, what gets dangerous is when you have people who believe that the government may be coming for them, who are equipping and training to combat federal forces. because even this rather moderate ohio militia, the exercise of which was premised on the idea that muslim terrorists were rampaging through the midwest because the muslims sympathizing president would not intervene. the force that they trained against that they were trying to kill in their exercise did not look like any terrorist group on the planet. it was described as having modern military hardware,
incrypted communications, vehicle support, operating in uniform and platoon-sized strength. what they were describing is essentially was an fbi hostage rescue team or national guard platoon or an atf tactical force. they were practicing to kill federal troops. when you have people with that mindset, there are two big worries. one is that they will interpret some ambiguous act as an attack and do what they perceive as defends themselves. the other, within their midst there grows up a lone wolf who believes the rhetoric, keeps hearing the warnings, keeps practicing and can t stand it anymore and goes out own acts. they don t trust the government. who is it that can go to them and talk to them? is there a middle ground, or do you have to watch them and react? you really to have to watch them. the lone wolf bart describes is the most difficult. tim typically what will happen is the group, itself, expels him. there s no one around him to trigger law enforcement to know you have a real d