Homegrown Terror in the Age of ISIS

Last October, in an interview with “60 Minutes,” FBI director James Comey revealed that there were “a dozen or so” Americans fighting in Syria on the side of terrorists.

Only nine months later, Comey revised those numbers when he testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that “upwards of 200 Americans have traveled or attempted to travel to Syria to participate in the conflict.”

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