Islamic State Twitter Command Should Be U.S. Target, House Homeland Security Chair Says
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The U.S. must target Islamic State terrorists’ ability to use social media to inspire attacks on American soil, a top House Republican said on Sunday after five military service-members were killed last week in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Representative Michael McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said on ABC’s “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” that there are 200,000 Islamic State messages on Twitter per day that hit the U.S.
“What they are saying is ‘attack military installations and attack police officers,’ ” Mr. McCaul of Texas said of what he described as the terrorist group’s “cyber command” operating in Syria. “The chatter is so loud and the volume so high that it’s a problem that’s very hard to stop and disrupt in this country.”
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