Behind the scenes, U.S. officials fret about ISIS attacks on homeland

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Even after the deadly terror attacks in Canada this week, some Democrats continue to insist that the Islamic State poses no threat to the U.S. homeland. But the apologist rhetoric from the left aimed at easing worries over President Obama’s ISIS aloofness is upended by a recently released government bulletin warning of impending ISIS attacks on U.S. law enforcement.

The October 2014 intelligence bulletin revealed by Breitbart Texas comes from the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI and is titled “Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant and Its Supporters Encouraging Attacks Against Law Enforcement and Government Personnel.” It focuses largely on Internet chatter about possible ISIS threats to the U.S.

“While we have no information indicating any ongoing plotting within the Homeland, FBI and DHS would like to ensure law enforcement and government personnel are aware that ISIL and its supporters continue to issue threats online,” the bulletin states.

One online call to action discussed in the document is attributed to ISIS spokesperson Abu Muhammad al-Adnani. A translation of a recorded message delivered by the terror affiliate calls on ISIS sympathizers to conduct domestic “lone wolf” attacks on Western “soldiers, patrons, and troops… their police, security, and intelligence members.”

Another alleged ISIS member cited in the bulletin similarly calls for attacks on “military, law enforcement, FBI personnel, government officials, and media figures” in the U.S. via “open source jihad.”

The intelligence bulletin notes that officials haven’t discovered any credible evidence that ISIS has a firm plan to attack targets in the U.S., but notes a possible ISIS-related attack in Australia and an allegedly thwarted ISIS plot in Britain as cause for concern.

The murder of a Canadian soldier at a national military monument in Ottowa at the hands of recent Islamic convert Michael Zehaf-Bibeau Wednesday raises additional concerns from U.S. officials.

“There’s no doubt in my mind behind the scenes the U.S. Capitol Police, the Secret Service, the State Department are well aware of the events unfolding and probably, very quietly, ramping up surveillance and exterior coverage,” former U.S. Diplomatic Security special agent and deputy counterterrorism chief Fred Burton told U.S. News and World Report on the heels of the attack.

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