By Steve Neavling
FBI Director Chistopher Wray told members of Congress on Thursday that the bureau is increasingly worried about a potential organized attack in the U.S. similar to last month’s Russia concert hall shooting that killed more than 140 people.
“As I look back over my career in law enforcement, I would be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once,” Christopher Wray told lawmakers at a budget hearing on Thursday, Reuters reports.
“But that is the case as I sit here today.”
ISIS claimed responsibility for the March 22 mass shooting at a concert hall in a Moscow suburb. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed Ukraine was responsible but presented no evidence.
What’s increasingly concerning “is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia Concert Hall just a couple weeks ago,” Wray told lawmakers in a shorter version of his written testimony.
Wray also sought to increase funding for the bureau, though many congressional Republicans are opposed.
