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MohRokTah

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3. Actually, we do still face a terrorist threat.
Wed Sep 10, 2014, 11:55 PM
Sep 2014

At least 100 members of the Islamic State terrorist organization are American citizens. That is a direct terrorist threat to the United States

The threat will only grow if ISIL gains more power.

Now, the appropriate approach to that threat is precisely what the president outlined tonight. Strikes to take out capabilities in the field right now. Monitoring by US intelligence agencies. OF course he didn't go into specifics, but the intelligence gathered by those agencies will be shared with domestic law enforcement so the potential domestic threat will be properly monitored and treated as the law enforcement issue it is.

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