![]() Scott Pelley: You believed you were going to be killed? James Comey: Well, frightening to anybody but especially to a younger person to be threatened with a gun and to believe you're going to be killed by this guy. And a guy - gunman kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. James Comey: I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. So I think it's made me a better prosecutor and investigator for being able to feel better what victims of crime experience." ".I thought about that guy every night for five years. ![]() He grew up near New York City, in the suburbs, where his grandfather was a police chief and where he came face-to-face with crime at an early age. In his operations center we got a sense of one of the imposing things about Comey, he is six foot eight. The budget has jumped from under four billion a year to more than eight billion. The Hostage Rescue Team is symbolic of the FBI's growth since 9/11. Scott Pelley: The name "lone wolf" offends you. And so they come across the propaganda and they become radicalized on their own, sort of independent study, and they're also able to equip themselves with training again through the Internet, and then engage in jihad after emerging from their basement. These homegrown violent extremists are troubled souls, who are seeking meaning in some misguided way. James Comey: Yeah, people who use that term, it's not one I like because it conveys a sense of dignity I don't think they deserve. Scott Pelley: Some people call individuals who are radicalized "lone wolves." Is that the biggest threat we face? But the FBI is investigating whether the murder was an imitation of ISIL's beheadings. He was allegedly upset about being suspended. Police say a man who'd tried to convert fellow employees to Islam, beheaded a woman in his workplace. Those terrorist training efforts online appeared to play out, the day before our interview, in Oklahoma. We are better in every way that you'd want us to be since 9/11." "We are better organized, better systems, better equipment, smarter deployment. ISIL is as sophisticated, maybe more than any of the others in its media presence and its recruiting and training efforts online. These are people who have thought about bringing terrorism on a global scale. They are experienced terrorists, experienced bomb-makers, experienced killers, experienced planners with an international eye. James Comey: Let's stay with the Nusra group first. They are both vicious, sort of the inheritors of a lot of the mantle of al Qaeda and present different threats in a lot of ways. And so you have two in particular in that area, a group called al-Nusra and then ISIL. James Comey: They're a product of what I describe as the metastasis of al Qaeda. Scott Pelley: How would you describe the terrorist networks in Syria as they exist right now? And so we have to act as if it's coming tomorrow. Given our visibility we know they're serious people, bent on destruction. I can't sit here and tell you whether it's their plan is tomorrow or three weeks or three months from now. James Comey: Khorasan was working and may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon. Scott Pelley: Was Khorasan about to attack the United States? is bombing ISIL and an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria called Khorasan. "ISIL" is the acronym he uses for the Islamic extremist group occupying much of Syria and Iraq. So someone who's fought with ISIL, with American passport wants to come back, we will track them very carefully. James Comey: Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport's revoked, is entitled to come back.
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