Chuck Todd: This ‘Lone Wolf Style Conspiracy’ Is France’s ‘Nightmare Scenario’

‘These are the hardest type of terrorist attacks to stop: The soft targets combined with these small either lone wolves or small packs’

DIAZ-BALART: "How does this affect us in the United States?" 
TODD: "In talking with security officials in the administration, this is the nightmare scenario, what's going on in France. The combination of a soft target and a small conspiracy or lone wolf-style conspiracy. I mean, look at the flashbacks that I know I'm having, having to do with two brothers holed up as they're running, wanting to be martyrs. It feels like Boston all over again. In some ways, what Paris is going through. I was talking to one security official who said they would love to publicly be able to say this could happen at any time in the United States. But they don't want to panic the country. But at the same time, these are the most -- these are the hardest type of terrorist attacks to stop. The soft targets combined with these small either lone wolves or small packs and small conspiracies. Especially the broader the conspiracy, the easier it is to stop these attacks. But the smaller the conspiracy, the harder it is. We've got the other issue, Jose, which is the line between security and privacy and security and freedom. In a free society, you're going to have soft targets. That's just a fact of life."

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