White House: Islamic State Fighters Have Returned to the US

23 Sep, 2014 by Cassy Fiano

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Remember how Obama laughed off the ISIS threat by calling them a “JV” organization” Well, those “JV” players have managed to get into the United States, causing a major national security threat.

White House officials on Monday acknowledged for the first time that Americans who’ve fought alongside the Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq have returned to the U.S., raising concerns about an attack on the homeland as President Obama prepares to urge the United Nations to confront the threat overseas.

Counterterrorism experts believe at least 100 Americans have traveled to the Middle East to join the terrorist group, and a senior administration official said the total includes “those who’ve gone, those who’ve tried to go, some who’ve come back and are under active [investigation] — the FBI is looking at them.”

“It is … believed that some 40 of those who left this country to join up with [the Islamic State] have now returned to our country,” said Rep. Timothy H. Bishop, New York Democrat. He said the 40 individuals “are under FBI attention and surveillance. So they are known and being tracked by the FBI.”

The development heightens one of the administration’s gravest concerns about the terrorist group that Mr. Obama once referred to as a “JV” organization: that battle-hardened jihadis holding U.S. passports could slip into the U.S. undetected and plan attacks virtually anywhere.

Looks like that whole open border, catch-and-release-a-bunch-of-terrorists idea isn’t really working out too well for Obama. Of course, that assumes that he actually gives a damn about terrorists running loose in the United States… and let’s be honest, in all likelihood, he doesn’t.