Cybersecurity
Homegrown Extremists Top Terrorist Threat List, Clapper Says
- Intelligence chief warns of attacks inspired by Islamic State
- Cybersecurity capabilities of Russia, China cited in testimony
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
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Homegrown extremists probably will “continue to pose the most significant Sunni terrorist threat to the U.S. homeland in 2016,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in a summary for Congress of the perils facing the nation globally.
Threats from Islamic State, or ISIL, are likely to “continue to involve those who draw inspiration from the group’s highly sophisticated media without direct guidance from ISIL leadership” as well as “individuals in the United States or abroad who receive direct guidance and specific direction” from the terrorists, Clapper said.