Thread by @alexadobrien

I am assuming that newly radicalized actors potentially moving to the far reaches of the dark web to plan multi-event simultaneous violence/terrorist events in the US have digital trails from their radicalization on social media. Thinking out loud (con't)

Here is the deal-- very high impact singular terrorist events in the US were rare, because they requires expertise (specialty bomb making), tightly organized groups (e.g.) AQ, and clean skins. AQ was born in secret war, and also religiously had

adopted some 'ketman'-like Sufis qualities. So that is one thing-- a lot of the so-called lone wolf events are people ramming cars or mass shootings. The thing is what seems to be happening with the FBI bulletin

is potentiality for simultaneous less complex acts of violence (e.g. mass shooting, etc.)-- that could potentially be problematic-- it would seem because public awareness and preparedness is so close to date of Inauguration.

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I guess if you have 20-50 events that are somewhat potentially violent, but one or two of higher impact you are depleting your LE and Intel resources running around figuring that out. One highly organized group could use that. Separately, who wants to show up willingly

to a violent event without a plan (in DC okay, with mass psychosis-- and promise of political cover from President)-- but in every Capitol? You and 5 buddies and 50 strangers you never met off Facebook? What are we talking about here?