White House Confirms Americans Fighting with ISIS Have Returned to U.S.

NN MALE REPORTER: "Earlier today, [indecipherable] official said that at least some of the foreign fighters in Syria and Iraq have come back to the United States. I was wondering how many of those have been under administration tracking. They also said they were under active surveillance by the FBI so I wondering if you could comment on that."
EARNEST: “As relates to the number, I'm not in a position to confirm numbers like that from here. You're obviously asking about some relatively sensitive intelligence information that I could not discuss from the podium. Just as a general matter, let me say that the United States and our law enforcement officials here, as well as our national security officials, are very focused on that threat that is posed by foreign fighters. Again, these are the individuals from the U.S. or the West that have traveled to Syria or the region, taken up arms long side ISIL. And the concern is that they can return to the U.S. and carry out acts of violence here. We we working very closely with our international partners to try to mitigate this threat, to keep eyes on these individuals and to monitor their movements. We have also been working very closely with INTERPOL, the law enforcement organization, to track the movement of these individuals. So this is an inter-agency response to a significant threat that we are watching closely.”