Obama: Feds doing ‘everything in our power’ to stop terror attacks

Published June 14, 2016 4:34pm ET



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.

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