President Obama said Tuesday that lone wolf or small-group attacks are “very hard to detect and very hard to prevent, but across our government, at every level … we are doing everything in our power to stop these kinds of attacks.”
“We work to succeed 100 percent of the time” but a lone-wolf attacker “only has to succeed once,” Obama said after meeting with his national security team at the Treasury Department to discuss the anti-Islamic State campaign.
Obama said there is still “no information that a foreign terrorist group” directed Omar Mateen’s attack in Orlando, Fla., early Sunday morning that left 49 people dead. However, Mateen was clearly radicalized by the kind of propaganda the self-proclaimed Islamic State spreads through social media, Obama said.
The meeting was scheduled before Mateen’s shooting spree.
