WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — The US government is investigating possible terrorist-inspired attacks directed at the United States, US Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson told reporters on Tuesday.
“The new environment that we are in includes not only the potential for terrorist erected but terrorist inspired attacks,” Johnson said at the Department of Homeland Security. “And as the FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] Director and I have said many times, what we are concerned about here in the homeland are copycat-like attacks.”
“There are a number of investigations by the FBI of potential plots, those who may be involved in plotting or planning terrorist acts,” Johnson said.
Concerns about terrorist attacks in the United States have increased after President Barack Obama announced his decision to resettle 10,000 Syrian refugees in the United States in 2016. The decision has provoked widespread opposition among lawmakers and state governors.
