Homegrown Terrorism
Homegrown terrorism will be part of the United States National Security Strategy for the first time, according to President Barack Obama’s chief counterterrorism adviser, who called it a new phase of the terrorist threat.
When the Obama administration unveils its National Security Strategy on Thursday, it will be the first time any president “explicitly recognizes the threat to the United States posed by individuals radicalized here at home,” National Security Adviser John Brennan said Wednesday.
The strategy acts as a blueprint for how a White House administration intends to protect Americans. In the past, it has focused mostly on international threats. But a spate of terror-related plots in the United States recently prompted the Obama administration to include homegrown terrorism in the document, Brennan said.
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