" The group's social media efforts could "cause a significant increase in the number of incidents we see," Comey added. For outsiders the importance here is not that "the USA " has decided that ISIS is its number 9/11 problem, but that those in charge of domestic homeland security see ISIS in the continental US as being a far bigger problem that Al-Qaeda cells. Osama bin Laden said "what worries me most is particularly [ISIS"s] investment in social media, which has been blossoming in May . " This is a significant shift in the FBI 's focus, and the mention regarding social media will have meant domestic- US social media traffic, not international traffic.
For outsiders the importance here is not that "the USA " has decided that ISIS is its number 9/11 problem, but that those in charge of domestic homeland security see ISIS in the continental US as being a far bigger problem that Al-Qaeda cells. Osama bin Laden said "what worries me most is particularly [ISIS"s] investment in social media, which has been blossoming in May ." This is a significant shift in the FBI 's focus, and the mention regarding social media will have meant domestic- US social media traffic, not international traffic.