Social Media is recruitment tool of ISIS

 

 

The United States is “vulnerable” to terrorist attacks by sympathizers or partisans from the Islamic State or ISIS now wreaking havoc in the Middle East.

Senate Homeland Security chair Sen. Ron Johnson made this admission to CNN’s State of the Union, citing the attack against a provocative cartoon contest in Texas last week.

However, Johnson warned that tracking ISIS sympathizers in the US is particularly difficult since the group recruits via social media and because law enforcers cannot track every possible suspect.

"The problem is, what do you do with the not-guilty-yet? We do have laws, we have a Constitution, and it's extremely difficult for law enforcement officials when you might have tens of thousands of sympathizers -- how do you track them all?"

There are about 46,000  or many as 90,000  Twitter accounts that support ISIS, said Johnson.

"Now, Twitter is starting to shut those things down," Johnson said. "But just consider maybe 90,000 people drawn to this barbaric ideology. So we have got a very large haystack. We're looking for a needle in it."

“The best strategy the U.S. can employ to defeat this is actually defeat ISIS in Iraq and Syria so that the reality is conveyed that this is not a winning organization, it is a losing organization," said Johnson. -end-

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