Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said the threat of “lone wolf” terror attacks has become his biggest fear, saying self-radicalized militants are much more difficult for law enforcement and intelligence agencies to detect. He specifically mentioned the December terror attack in San Bernardino, Calif., when a husband-and-wife team killed 14 people at a holiday party, and the mass shooting at an Orlando nightclub last month that killed nearly 50 people. Asked what threat kept him up at night, Mr. Johnson said “the next Orlando, San Bernardino-type attack by someone who has radicalized in secret. Others are higher probability, and so we have to prioritize in this way.”After the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks in the U.S., counterterrorism officials and law enforcement shifted their strategy to work and prevent another large-scale attack. Mr. Johnson, speaking at the Aspen Security Forum, said U.S. and foreign counterterrorism officials have had to adjust to the prevalence of “small scale attacks in increasing frequency,” both in the U.S. and Europe.

Source: Fox News July 28, 2016 05:26 UTC