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FBI Director Christopher Wray went silent Tuesday when questioned over whether or not the nation was safer since President Biden took workplace.
“Is the US safer from overseas terror threats right now? Are we safer than when Joe Biden took workplace — from the day he took workplace?” Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., requested Wray throughout a Senate Homeland Safety Committee listening to.
Wray took an prolonged pause, sitting silently and showing to be in deep thought earlier than lastly answering.
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“What I might say to you is that the fear threats have elevated. However I additionally suppose there are lots of issues the nation has finished all through legislation enforcement to be higher ready to cope with them,” he mentioned, circuitously saying whether or not the nation had grow to be safer beneath Biden’s watch.
“I requested FBI Director Wray a easy query: is the U.S. safer right now than it was earlier than [Joe Biden] took workplace? After practically 10 seconds of silence, he lastly admitted what everyone knows… ‘…the fear threats have elevated…'” Scott wrote on X following the listening to.
Through the listening to Wray warned that the specter of a terror assault towards Individuals has been raised to a “entire different stage” as a consequence of ongoing battle within the Center East.
WHITE HOUSE ‘COULDN’T POSSIBLY ANSWER’ WHETHER TERRORISTS HAVE ALREADY CROSSED OVER THE SOUTHERN BORDER
Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., (left) and FBI Director Christopher Wray (proper). (Getty Photographs)
“The fact is that the terrorism risk has been elevated all through 2023, however the ongoing conflict within the Center East has raised the specter of an assault towards Individuals in the US to an entire different stage,” Wray mentioned.
Hamas launched a lethal terrorist assault towards Israel on Oct. 7, resulting in a army response from the U.S. ally. The battle has renewed concern within the U.S. that there could possibly be related terror assaults impressed by Hamas and different terrorist teams, together with by home and homegrown terrorists.
Following the listening to, the White Home mentioned it “could not probably reply” whether or not terrorists had already crossed over the southern border amid the continuing disaster there and the elevated safety threats within the Center East when pressed by Fox Information.
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Fox Information’ Adam Shaw and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
Brandon Gillespie is an affiliate editor at Fox Information. Comply with him on Twitter at @brandon_cg.
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