U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said during an interview over the weekend that more than 100 federal investigations have been opened in recent months that stem from Hamas’ October 7 terrorist attack against Israel.
Monaco made the remarks during a Sunday ABC News interview on “This Week” with Pierre Thomas.
“I think we are in a very, very challenging threat environment,” she said. “During 9/11 our focus was on sophisticated plots driven by foreign terrorist organizations with catastrophic effect. Today I think we’re in a unique moment where what we’re most worried about are individuals or small groups who are often radicalized online and who are motivated by and influenced by a range of ideologies from foreign terrorism and foreign terrorist organizations to domestic grievances.”
She said that federal law enforcement officials are seeing foreign terrorist…