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ISIS Threat at Home: FBI Warns US Military About Social Media Vulnerabilities
Yahoo.com ^ | 12/1/2014 | BRIAN ROSS and JAMES GORDON MEEK

Posted on 12/01/2014 6:09:36 AM PST by Beave Meister

The FBI on Sunday issued the strongest warning to date about possible attacks by the ISIS terrorist group against the U.S. military inside the homeland, officials tell ABC News.

In a joint intelligence bulletin issued overnight by the FBI with the Department of Homeland Security, officials strongly urged those who serve in uniform to scrub their social media accounts of anything that might bring unwanted attention from "violent extremists" or would help the extremists learn individual service members' identities.

"The FBI and DHS recommend that current and former members of the military review their online social media accounts for any information that might serve to attract the attention of ISIL [ISIS] and its supporters," the federal bulletin sent to law enforcement agencies said, advising that troops "routinely exercise operational security in their interactions online."

Officials said they fear copycat attacks based on what happened in Canada last month, when two uniformed Canadian soldiers were killed in two separate incidents by young men who claimed they were ISIS followers.

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KEYWORDS: america; dhs; fbi; isis; isisterrorthreat; isisthreat; islam; military; obama; religionofpeace
I'm sure the New York Times will be more than willing to help these ISISholes out and supply them with all the military information they would need such as address, names spouses, children (what school the children attend), in-laws and next of kin.....you know because they hate the military and America.
1 posted on 12/01/2014 6:09:36 AM PST by Beave Meister
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To: Beave Meister

Generally found that government employees either don’t have an account (my cousin in USMC) or don’t post job information. (Friend). So for them, the news leaks morethan they will personally.


2 posted on 12/01/2014 6:14:30 AM PST by Morpheus2009
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To: Beave Meister

The door is wide open.


3 posted on 12/01/2014 6:19:25 AM PST by cripplecreek (You can't half ass conservatism.)
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