FBI Director Christopher Wray warned during an interview on Sunday that the threat of Islamic terrorism was much more significant than most in the U.S. realize.
Wray made the remarks during an interview on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” just two weeks after an ISIS-inspired terrorist killed 14 people on New Year’s Day in New Orleans’ French Quarter.
“There was a guy, a Pakistani citizen just a few months ago who we worked with our Canadian partners to arrest,” Wray said. “This guy was trying to get into the U.S., to get to New York City to conduct a mass shooting at a Jewish center in Brooklyn. And, in his words, not my words, his words, he wanted to conduct the largest attack in the U.S. since 9/11.”
“So what I would say to the American people is that, when you think these things are happening half a world away, it’s like that little inscription on your mirror in your…
