Obama urges Americans to ‘stay united’ against terrorism

“I want to repeat what my team just told me: At this moment, our intelligence and counterterrorism officials do not have any specific and credible information about an attack on the homeland”, Mr. Obama said at the National Counterterrorism Center in McLean, Virginia.

The President will make a statement to the nation about terror threats following that briefing.

It was the second security briefing the White House has highlighted this week as the president tries to reassure the public in the wake of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California.

“Since 9/11 we’ve taken extraordinary steps to strengthen our homeland security”, he said. The president said USA intelligence and counter-terrorism professionals don’t have any specific, credible information suggesting a terrorist attack on the US during the holidays. “We’ve prevailed over much greater threats than this; we will prevail again”. But FBI chief James Comey said Wednesday they “found no evidence of posting on social media by either of them”.

“After the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, I know that most Americans were anxious”, he added, before repeating that no “credible” threat now existed and reminding citizens that the US has “the very best” counterterrorism and law enforcement officials “in the world”.

It’s clear that the President of the United States refuses to fight the threat of Islamic terrorism on the homefront. “Because they are smaller, often self-initiating, self-motivating, they’re harder to detect”.

The review ordered by Obama will continue through the holiday season, the officials said, in an attempt to harden defenses against potential terrorists entering the country.

Obama, who was elected on a promise to extricate the USA from Iraq quagmire that the GOP wholeheartedly supported, has been reluctant to send American ground forces back to the country to battle ISIS.