Shawn Ryan

And Iran, and again, I'm no fan of Iran, they were restraining their proxies.

They even restrained their proxies throughout the first iteration of the 12-day war.

So again, I go back to why are we doing what we're doing right now?

Look at the ramifications.

Look at how little we're gaining from this.

And again, all roads go back to Israel is the benefactor in all of this.

And we've got to get that relationship to a place where it actually benefits us and not just them.

Right.

Or were they just inspired by events that are over there?

So I testified publicly in December that we at NCTC had identified 18,000 known suspected terrorists who had access to America.

The more we dug into the data of the last four years, the more I realized we have no idea who's in our country.

Um, just because there was no border, the CBP One app and the ability for people to come into the country undetected, but then later apply for a benefit knowing they'd get a parole status, which gives them a legal status in America, which we're still caught up in the courts and fighting the courts with.

We just simply don't know.

At the beginning of this war, we were looking at other data sets of people who could have come from either Iran or Lebanon, Iraq, countries that have large Shia populations.

And again, the data was, to me, it was as murky as the numbers of who came into the border.

Like, it just, the one consistent factor I kept coming away with, or the one takeaway I kept coming away with,

was that we have no idea who is in our country right now.

And that is incredibly dangerous.

So again, I think we should be focusing the majority of our efforts on securing our homeland and making sure the people who came into our country in the last four years are located and we get them out.

Now, sleeper cells, I think a lot of people when they hear sleeper cells, they'll think like it's a handful of guys who are specifically trained and infiltrated to conduct an attack at a certain time.