The head of ISIS called for attacks during the season of Ramadan, which is what you have seen both in Orlando and now in Istanbul at the airport. – Mike McCaul
In Europe, you have very different situation than you do in the United States. In Europe, it’s very segregated. And you have the diasporas in Belgium that I saw. And they’re being radicalized because they’re not assimilated with the culture. I don’t think we have that same situation in the United States. – Mike McCaul
I think a lot of people don’t realize that our military that defends our freedoms abroad, when they come home to the military base, are not allowed to carry weapons. – Mike McCaul
We pulled out of Libya. Now look what’s happened: a safe haven, a vacuum, ISIS training militants to hit in Tunisia. – Mike McCaul
I think Mrs. Clinton has a lot of weaknesses because she was the architect of the Obama administration’s foreign policy. – Mike McCaul
When you project weakness throughout the world, and you have a failed foreign policy, this is what you get. And now we have chaos in the Middle East, have ISIS taking over Iraq, Syria, Northern Africa, Egypt. – Mike McCaul
We’re seeing Iran now through the Shia militias in Iraq. We’re seeing Iran in Syria; we know the Quds Force is in there. – Mike McCaul
Libya is a failed state and becoming a launching pad for external operations, as is Sinai in Egypt. – Mike McCaul
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is the largest external operation force within al Qaeda. – Mike McCaul
I think it’s important to note that after the airstrikes began in Iraq and Syria, ISIS began a very aggressive social media campaign calling for these types of attacks, these lone wolf attacks. – Mike McCaul
You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the plane that’s corrupted or bribed or radicalized, they can get a bomb on that aircraft and blow it up. – Mike McCaul
What I’m concerned about are two things. I think one that John Miller talked about, and that’s the radicalization over the Internet that ISIS is very adept at doing. The other one is a foreign fighter threat. – Mike McCaul
In the radical Islamist jihad world, you’re seeing more and more recruits going to ISIS rather than al-Qaida. – Mike McCaul
I would like to take a moment of silence to remember all those who lost their lives at the hands of ISIS, especially Americans James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and, most recently, Kayla Mueller. – Mike McCaul
That’s what really concerns me about the modern-day terrorists that we face is this global expansion. – Mike McCaul
It is time for President Obama to admit that – in this new age of peer-to-peer terror – we need a real strategy to combat radicalization at home and destroy extremist safe havens abroad. – Mike McCaul
This is the new wave, the new generation of terrorism. It’s gone viral. It’s very dangerous, and it’s very hard to stop. – Mike McCaul
