House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Mark Green (R-TN) said this week that the U.S. needed more FBI personnel to stop people from being radicalized into becoming terrorists after a man who recently converted to Islam declared his allegiance to ISIS and murdered 14 people in New Orleans this week.
Green’s remarks come after 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Jabbar used a rented truck to mow down people in New Orleans’ French Quarter before he got out and opened fire on law enforcement.
“What our FBI needs is more resources,” Green told CBS News on Friday morning.
He said that agents need to be looking for individuals who are online and becoming radicalized inside the U.S.
“The fusion centers do a pretty good job most of the time, but a situation like this where a guy gets radicalized, we don’t know exactly when, and then is turned on to do a mission like this, that’s the…
