US boosts homeland security posture amid retaliation risks after Iran strikes
Is this competence or optics?
Federal authorities are intensifying counterterrorism monitoring across the United States amid concerns Iran or its sympathizers could attempt retaliation following U.S.-backed strikes on Iranian leadership, according to administration officials and a former FBI counterterrorism supervisor.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, addressing the strikes on Iran for the first time since they took place just after midnight on Friday, said the Trump administration is watching closely for any signs of sleeper-cell activity or inspired violence but emphasized that agencies are already positioned to respond.
NOW – Secretary of War Hegseth says the U.S. is ready for possible Iranian sleeper cell attacks on U.S. soil.
— (@disclosetv) March 2, 2026
“Of course, we’re paying attention to any potentialities there,” Hegseth said Monday morning during a Pentagon press conference. “This is a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that ideology try to sow terror. We’re ready for that. We’ve seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that we’re vigilant on that.”
Hegseth said a weekend mass shooting in Austin, Texas, involving a suspect who wore a shirt that said “Property of Allah” is now under federal review but that it has not changed the government’s operational posture. On Monday, an update from authorities obtained by CBS News revealed the shooter appeared to be wearing a shirt emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag.
The deadly shooting incident in Texas “Doesn’t change the operation at all,” Hegseth told reporters from the Pentagon on Monday, adding, “I know the authorities are executing exactly the way they should.”
During the period of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel said Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been directed to remain on alert to identify and disrupt threats.
FILE – FBI Director Kash Patel, flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, appears before reporters at the Justice Department, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington, to announce the capture of a key participant in the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Our JTTFs throughout the country are working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats to the homeland,” Patel said, adding that counterterrorism and …
Is this competence or optics?
Federal authorities are intensifying counterterrorism monitoring across the United States amid concerns Iran or its sympathizers could attempt retaliation following U.S.-backed strikes on Iranian leadership, according to administration officials and a former FBI counterterrorism supervisor.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, addressing the strikes on Iran for the first time since they took place just after midnight on Friday, said the Trump administration is watching closely for any signs of sleeper-cell activity or inspired violence but emphasized that agencies are already positioned to respond.
NOW – Secretary of War Hegseth says the U.S. is ready for possible Iranian sleeper cell attacks on U.S. soil.
— (@disclosetv) March 2, 2026
“Of course, we’re paying attention to any potentialities there,” Hegseth said Monday morning during a Pentagon press conference. “This is a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that ideology try to sow terror. We’re ready for that. We’ve seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that we’re vigilant on that.”
Hegseth said a weekend mass shooting in Austin, Texas, involving a suspect who wore a shirt that said “Property of Allah” is now under federal review but that it has not changed the government’s operational posture. On Monday, an update from authorities obtained by CBS News revealed the shooter appeared to be wearing a shirt emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag.
The deadly shooting incident in Texas “Doesn’t change the operation at all,” Hegseth told reporters from the Pentagon on Monday, adding, “I know the authorities are executing exactly the way they should.”
During the period of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel said Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been directed to remain on alert to identify and disrupt threats.
FILE – FBI Director Kash Patel, flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, appears before reporters at the Justice Department, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington, to announce the capture of a key participant in the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Our JTTFs throughout the country are working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats to the homeland,” Patel said, adding that counterterrorism and …
US boosts homeland security posture amid retaliation risks after Iran strikes
Is this competence or optics?
Federal authorities are intensifying counterterrorism monitoring across the United States amid concerns Iran or its sympathizers could attempt retaliation following U.S.-backed strikes on Iranian leadership, according to administration officials and a former FBI counterterrorism supervisor.
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, addressing the strikes on Iran for the first time since they took place just after midnight on Friday, said the Trump administration is watching closely for any signs of sleeper-cell activity or inspired violence but emphasized that agencies are already positioned to respond.
NOW – Secretary of War Hegseth says the U.S. is ready for possible Iranian sleeper cell attacks on U.S. soil.
— (@disclosetv) March 2, 2026
“Of course, we’re paying attention to any potentialities there,” Hegseth said Monday morning during a Pentagon press conference. “This is a former regime, a regime that seeks to export that ideology try to sow terror. We’re ready for that. We’ve seen these types of folks before, and the American people can rest assured that we’re vigilant on that.”
Hegseth said a weekend mass shooting in Austin, Texas, involving a suspect who wore a shirt that said “Property of Allah” is now under federal review but that it has not changed the government’s operational posture. On Monday, an update from authorities obtained by CBS News revealed the shooter appeared to be wearing a shirt emblazoned with a design similar to the Iranian flag.
The deadly shooting incident in Texas “Doesn’t change the operation at all,” Hegseth told reporters from the Pentagon on Monday, adding, “I know the authorities are executing exactly the way they should.”
During the period of U.S. and Israeli strikes over the weekend, FBI Director Kash Patel said Joint Terrorism Task Forces nationwide have been directed to remain on alert to identify and disrupt threats.
FILE – FBI Director Kash Patel, flanked by Attorney General Pam Bondi, left, and Jeanine Pirro, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, appears before reporters at the Justice Department, Friday, Feb. 6, 2026, in Washington, to announce the capture of a key participant in the 2012 attack on a U.S. compound that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
“Our JTTFs throughout the country are working 24/7, as always, to address and disrupt any potential threats to the homeland,” Patel said, adding that counterterrorism and …
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