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We sat down with 53 year old James Comey in his command center at FBI headquarters in Washington where one of his urgent concerns is the whereabouts of Americans who\u0027ve joined terrorist groups overseas. \tScott Pelley: How many Americans are fighting in Syria on the side of the terrorists? \tJames Comey: In the area of a dozen or canada goose outlet near me so. \tScott Pelley: Do you know who they are? \tJames Comey: Yes. \tScott Pelley: Each and every one of them? \tJames Comey: I think of that, dozen or so, I do. I hesitate only because I don\u0027t know what I don\u0027t know. \tScott Pelley: With American passports, canada goose outlet online store review how do you keep them from coming home and attacking the homeland? \tJames Comey: Ultimately, an American citizen, unless their passport\u0027s revoked, is entitled to come back. So someone who\u0027s fought with ISIL, with American passport wants to come back, we will track them very carefully. \t \t\“ISIL\“ is the acronym he uses for the Islamic extremist group occupying much of Syria and Iraq. is bombing ISIL and an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria called Khorasan. \tScott Pelley: Was Khorasan about to attack the United States? \tJames Comey: Khorasan was working and may still be working on an effort to attack the United States or our allies, and looking to do it very, very soon. I can\u0027t sit here and tell you whether it\u0027s their plan is tomorrow or three weeks or three months from now. Given our visibility we know they\u0027re serious people, bent on destruction. And so we have to act as if it\u0027s coming tomorrow. \tScott Pelley: How would you describe the terrorist networks in Syria as they exist canada goose outlet new york city right now? \tJames Comey: They\u0027re a product of what I describe as the metastasis of al Qaeda. And so you have two in particular in that area, a group called al Nusra and then ISIL. They are both vicious, sort of the inheritors canada goose outlet houston of canada goose outlet shop a lot of the mantle of al Qaeda and present different threats in a lot of ways. \tScott Pelley: Competent? \tJames Comey: Highly. \tScott Pelley: What do you mean? \tJames Comey: Let\u0027s stay with the Nusra group first. They are experienced terrorists, experienced bomb makers, experienced killers, experienced planners with an international eye. These are people who have thought about bringing terrorism on a global scale. ISIL is as sophisticated, maybe more than any of the others in its media presence and its recruiting and training efforts online.\“We are better organized, better systems, better equipment, smarter deployment. We are better in every way that you\u0027d want us to be since 9\/11.\“ \tThose terrorist training efforts online canada goose outlet montreal appeared to play out, the day before our interview, in Oklahoma. Police say a man who\u0027d tried to convert fellow employees to Islam, beheaded a woman in canada goose outlet in canada his workplace. He was allegedly upset canada goose outlet store calgary about being suspended. But the FBI is investigating whether the murder was an imitation of ISIL\u0027s beheadings. \tScott Pelley: Some people call individuals who are radicalized \“lone wolves.\“ Is that the biggest threat we face? \tJames Comey: Yeah, people who use that term, it\u0027s not one I like because it conveys a sense of dignity I don\u0027t think they deserve. These homegrown violent extremists are troubled souls, who are seeking meaning in some misguided way. canada goose outlet online And so they come across the propaganda and they become radicalized on their own, sort of independent study, and they\u0027re also able to equip themselves with training again through the Internet, and then engage in jihad after emerging from their basement. \tScott Pelley: The name \“lone wolf\“ offends you. \tJames Comey: It does. I\u0027d prefer lone rat to capture the kind of canada goose outlet orlando person we\u0027re talking about. \tScott Pelley: Lone rat? \tJames Comey: Yeah. \tScott Pelley: Is this as dangerous a time as al Qaeda at its peak? \tJames Comey: No, I don\u0027t think so. \tScott Pelley: What\u0027s different? \tJames Comey: We are better organized as an intelligence community. We\u0027re better organized and equipped at the border. We have relationships with our foreign partners. All of which make us better able to see dots and connect dots. The transformation since before 9\/11 is striking. \tOne striking transformations is in the FBI\u0027s elite Hostage Rescue Team. Which has more than doubled in size since 9\/11. \t[Special agent: One minute! One minute!] \tYou almost never see the HRT, but we were given rare access to their training center. These are FBI special agents practicing an assault on a building where a hostage might be beheld. Even training, the team uses live ammunition and live explosives. special operations forces for hundreds of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan. ambassador and canada goose outlet niagara falls three others. The new emphasis, these days, is to canada goose outlet ottawa bring terrorists to court. \tJames Comey: We\u0027re there to make sure that we have a criminal option in our country\u0027s toolbox when we take the fight to the terrorists. \tScott Pelley: So they would be involved in such things as evidence collection and making sure that arrests were done in such a way that they\u0027d be seen as admissible in court. \tJames Comey: Yeah, or if canada goose outlet store quebec we grab somebody and they say something that we may want to use later we can use special agents of the FBI to testify about it. \tThe Hostage Rescue Team is symbolic of the FBI\u0027s growth since 9\/11. The budget has jumped from under four billion a year to more than eight billion. Comey now leads 34,000 employees. \tJames Comey: This is called \“watch.\“ \tIn his operations center we got a sense of one of the imposing things about Comey, he is six foot eight. So I think it\u0027s made me a better prosecutor and investigator for being able to feel better what victims of crime experience.\“ \tJames Comey: I was a high school senior and home alone one night with my younger brother. And a guy gunman kicked in our front door at our home in New Jersey and held the two of us captive. We escaped. He caught us again. We escaped again. So canada goose outlet toronto a pretty horrific experience. \tScott Pelley: Horrific how? \tJames Comey: Well, frightening to canada goose outlet toronto factory anybody but especially to a younger person to be threatened with a gun and to believe you\u0027re going to be killed by this guy. \tScott Pelley: You believed you were going to be killed? \tJames Comey: I did. \tScott Pelley: What happened to that guy? \tJames Comey: He got away. My recollection was he was part of a pattern of rapes and robberies, home invasion rapes and robberies in that area of northern New Jersey. \tScott Pelley: Does that inform your work today in any way. \tJames Comey: It does, but probably in a way that would surprise people. I think it most affects me in giving me a sense of what victims feel. And that even the notion no one was physically harmed, doesn\u0027t mean canada goose womens outlet no one was harmed. Because I thought about canada goose clothing uk that guy every night for five years. So I think it\u0027s made me a better prosecutor and investigator for being able to feel better what victims of crime experience. \tHe\u0027s been a federal prosecutor most of his career. In 2003, President Bush appointed him deputy attorney general, number two at the Justice Department. But after two years he left for private industry, telling his wife that it was her turn to do what she wanted. Then the phone rang last year. \tJames Comey: The attorney general called and asked me if I was willing to be interviewed for FBI director. And the truth is I told him I didn\u0027t think so, that I thought it was too much for my family. But that I would sleep on it and call him back in the morning. And so I went to bed that night convinced I was going to call him back and say no. \tScott Pelley: What happened? \tJames Comey: I woke up. And my amazing wife was gone. area. Which was a clue. And she said, \“I\u0027ve known you since you were 19. This is canada goose outlet uk who you are. This is what you love. You\u0027ve got to say yes.\“ And then she paused and said, \“But they\u0027re not going to pick you anyway, so just go down there and do your best. And then we\u0027ll have no regrets.\“ \tScott Pelley: At least you would have tried. \tJames Comey: Right. \tScott Pelley: So you met with the president. \tJames Comey: I did. \tScott Pelley: What happened? \tJames Comey: Had to give my wife some bad news: that her confidence in them not picking me was misplaced. \tThat pick gives Comey a ten year term. He intends it to be a decade that transforms the FBI again. To fight crime and espionage online.\“There are those who\u0027ve been hacked by the Chinese and those who don\u0027t know they\u0027ve been hacked by the Chinese.\“ \tJames Comey: Cybercrime is becoming everything in crime. Again, because people have connected their entire lives to the Internet, that\u0027s where those who want to steal money or hurt kids or defraud go. So it\u0027s an epidemic for reasons that make sense. \tScott Pelley: How many attacks are there on American computer systems and on people\u0027s credit card numbers and the whole mass of it? What does a day look like if you\u0027re concerned with crime in cyberspace? \tCOMEY: It would be too many to count. I mean, I think of it as kind of an evil layer cake. At the top you have nation state actors, who are trying to break into our systems. Terrorists, organized cyber syndicates, very sophisticated, harvesting people\u0027s personal computers, canada goose outlet price down to hacktivists, down to criminals and pedophiles. \tScott Pelley: What countries are attacking the United States as we sit here in cyberspace? \tJames Comey: Well, I don\u0027t want to give you a complete list. But I can tell you the top of the list is the Chinese. As we have demonstrated with the charges we brought earlier this year against five members of the People\u0027s Liberation Army. They are extremely aggressive and widespread in their efforts to break into American systems to steal information that would benefit their industry. \tScott Pelley: What are they trying to get? \tJames Comey: Information that\u0027s useful to them so they don\u0027t have canada goose stockists uk to invent. They can copy or steal so learn about how a company might approach negotiation with a Chinese company, all manner of things. \tScott Pelley: How many hits from China do we take in a day? \tJames Comey: Many, many, many. I mean, there are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who\u0027ve been hacked by the Chinese and those who don\u0027t know they\u0027ve been hacked by the Chinese. \tScott Pelley: The Chinese are that good? \tJames Comey: Actually, not that good. I liken them a bit to a drunk burglar. They\u0027re kicking in the front door, knocking over the vase, while they\u0027re walking out with your television set. They\u0027re just prolific. Their strategy seems to be: We\u0027ll just be everywhere all the time. And there\u0027s no way they can stop us. economy every year? \tJames Comey: Impossible to count. Billions. \tScott Pelley: Sounds like cybercrime is a long way from Bonnie and Clyde for the FBI. \tJames Comey: Bonnie and Clyde could not do a thousand robberies in the same canada goose jacket outlet toronto day, in all 50 states, from their pajamas, halfway around the world. \tScott Pelley: The FBI\u0027s had legendary problems upgrading its computer systems. Are you now to a place where you\u0027re satisfied that you\u0027re meeting the cybersecurity threat? \tJames Comey: We\u0027ve made great progress coordinating better as a government. When I last left government, my sense of us was kind of like four year old soccer. So like a clump of four year olds chasing the ball, we were chasing it in a pack. We\u0027re about high school soccer now. We\u0027re spread out. We pass well. But the bad guys are moving at World Cup speed. I think there\u0027s something about sitting in front of your own computer working on your own banking, your own health care, your own social life that makes it hard to understand the danger. I mean, the Internet is the most dangerous parking lot imaginable. But if you were crossing a mall parking lot late at night, your entire sense of danger would be heightened. You would stand straight. You\u0027d walk quickly. You\u0027d know where you were going. You would look for light. Folks are wandering around that proverbial parking canada goose outlet woodbury lot of the Internet all day long, without giving it a thought to whose attachments they\u0027re opening, what sites they\u0027re visiting. And that makes it easy for the bad guys. \tScott Pelley: So tell folks at home what they need to know. \tJames Comey: When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is. \tScott Pelley: And what might that attachment do? \tJames Comey: Well, take over the computer, lock the computer, and then demand a ransom payment before it would unlock. Steal images from your system of your children or your, you know, or steal your banking information, take your entire life. \tScott Pelley: We have talked about a lot of menacing things in this interview. Do you think Americans should sleep well? \tJames Comey: I think they should. I mean, the money they have invested in this government since 9\/11 has been well spent. And we are better organized, better systems, better equipment, smarter deployment. We are better in every way that you\u0027d want us to be since 9\/11. We\u0027re not perfect. My philosophy as a leader is we are never good enough. But we are in a much better place than we were 13 years ago. \tOur conversation with FBI Director James Comey continues here next week when we ask whether the FBI is snooping on average Americans and why he thinks Apple\u0027s new iPhone software could be a threat to national security. 5, 2014. Scott Pelley is the correspondent. Robert Anderson and Pat Milton, producers. Canada Goose Parka
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