FBI Director James Comey delivered the keynote speech at Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security. Comey said terrorism is “more worrisome” than it was in 2005 due to the Internet and the sheer volume terrorist propaganda online that influences people who might join an extremist group overseas. Those individuals don’t have to meet with a member of Al-Qaeda in person as they “are radicalized by online propaganda” and are “equipped to engage in their jihad without ever actually leaving their basement or bedroom,” he said. They “can get all they need on the Internet to engage in an act of violence here in the United States.”

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