John McLaughlin: These People, Call Them Lone Wolfs, But They Really Aren’t Alone

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McLAUGHLIN: "I would say the single biggest gap in our intelligence system is warning about this kind of individual. We catch terrorists and detect them, largely when they move and communicate. These people, call them lone wolves, but they’re really not alone. They have a lot of company online. And short of some sort of massive surveillance program that the United States public would not accept, other than what citizens do to report what they see that’s unusual, we don’t have a very rewarding system. Interesting thing about this individual, very different from others, he’s alive. He’s apparently connected to some other individuals. We don’t know who yet. We’re going to learn a lot, I think, as a result of the fact that this is the first time we’ve had someone in custody who did something like this. We don’t know whether he was trained abroad yet, for example. Faisal Shahzad, the person who failed in his attempt to bomb Times Square because a citizen alerted the police, he was trained in Pakistan. We know that. We don't know that about this individual yet."