‘The threat is now increasingly from within.’

Mitchell Silber, director of intelligence analysis for the New York City police department, before the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs a moment ago: “The threat is now increasingly from within,” regarding home-grown, self-radicalized terrorists.

He concludes:

The al-Qaeda threat to the homeland is no longer confined to al-Qaeda core

. . . most recently, the home-grown, self-radicalized operatives who have no operational relationship with al-Qaeda’s core, who utilize al-Qaeda’s ideology

for action.