Dan Coats: “we are fortunately moving forward on this issue of extreme importance to the security of the American people. These are…”

“we are fortunately moving forward on this issue of extreme importance to the security of the American people. These are necessary procedures we should take to do everything we can to ensure our safety, to publicly discuss and debate the issue of terrorist threat and the measures the people's government is taking to defend our country and to defend each individual American from being a victim of terrorism. As Senator Burr, chairman of the Intelligence Committee, just related, the threat to our certain security and to our safety has never been stronger, never been more threatening, with the proliferation of terrorist organizations, the unfortunate proliferation of the inspiration that is being provided through social media to any number of American citizens--and those who may not be citizens but are residing in this country--to take up arms or to create a bomb or bring harm to Americans in the name of support for jihad, in the name of ISIS, in the name of Al Qaeda, in the name of support for the extreme fundamentalist activities of terrorists that are prevailing not only through the Middle East but affecting the world in various places. We know through intelligence gathering and through public statements, the United States has been put in the crosshairs. ``Kill Americans, no matter how you do it, take it up.…”