Chris Wray: US ‘safer’ and better equipped to handle terror threats than in 2001

Published September 11, 2018 12:02am ET



FBI Director Chris Wray said the U.S. is “safer” now than it was in 2001 when the Sept. 11 terror attacks occurred, noting that the U.S. is better equipped to manage terror threats now.

“People think of the 9/11 threat, they think New York, they think D.C. Today’s terrorist threat is everywhere, coast to coast, north, south east, west,” Wray told CBS’s Norah O’Donnell in the first of a multi-part interview, according to a preview. “It’s a different kind of threat.”

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