FBI Director Christopher Wray will defend his budget request Thursday on the Hill where he is expected to stress that he’s never seen so many elevated threat levels before in his career.

“Looking back over my career in law enforcement, I’d be hard-pressed to think of a time where so many threats to our public safety and national security were so elevated all at once,” Wray will say to the House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Thursday afternoon. “But that is the case as I sit here today. This is not a point when we can let up.”

Wray will argue at the hearing that the federal agency needs fiscal support to “tackle these threats” to keep American citizens safe.

“This is by no means a time to let up or dial back. This is a time when we need your support the most — we need all the tools, all the people, and all the resources required to tackle these threats and to keep Americans safe,” Wray will say.

Wray will also say that attacks similar to the recent Russia Concert Hall attack are an “immediate concern.”

“…Our most immediate concern has been that individuals or small groups will draw twisted inspiration from the events in the Middle East to carry out attacks here at home. But now increasingly concerning is the potential for a coordinated attack here in the homeland, akin to the ISIS-K attack we saw at the Russia Concert Hall a couple weeks ago,” he will say.

Wray will stress the need to reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).

“…An absolutely indispensable tool for Congress can give us in our fight against foreign adversaries is the reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act,” he will say. “It’s critical in securing our nation, and we’re in crunch time.”

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