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Riot police use teargas to disperse Kurdish demonstrators who were clashing with Turkish security forces as thousands of Syrian refugees continue to arrive at the border in Suruc, Turkey, Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Turkey opened its border Saturday to allow in up to 60,000 people who massed on the Turkey-Syria border, fleeing the Islamic militants&#8217; advance on Kobani.(AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)

White House: Some Islamic State fighters have returned to U.S.

By Dave Boyer and Phillip Swarts - The Washington Times

Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, right, talk before the start of a House Homeland Security Full Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 17, 2014. The U.S. is able to track Westerners who travel to and from Syria, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said. But inside Syria, there are intelligence gaps. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

VANNESS: A blind eye to homeland threats

By Alex VanNess

FILE- In this June 2, 2014, file photo provided by the Monroe County Sheriff's Office Mufid Elfgeeh, of Rochester, N.Y., is shown. Elfgeeh, who was accused of plotting to kill members of the U.S. military and others, is now facing new charges that he tried to aid the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq. (AP Photo/Monroe County Sheriff's Office, File)

NY man denies plotting to aid Islamic State group

Associated Press

Mufid Elfgeeh is taken from his arraignment in federal court in Rochester, NY, Monday June 2, 2014. The Rochester man was indicted Tuesday Sept. 16, 2014 on charges that he tried to provide material support to the Islamic State by helping three men who said they would travel to Syria to &#8220;engage in violent jihad&#8221; alongside the group&#8217;s militants, according to the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Democrat & Chronicle, Shawn Dowd)

New York man charged in plot to kill U.S. troops for Islamic State

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

Image: Federal Bureau of Investigation.

FBI’s new facial recognition program is fully operational

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FBI Director James Comey takes a question during a news conference at the FBI field office in Denver, Wednesday Aug. 20, 2014. FBI Director James Comey says Islamic State extremists who executed journalist James Foley are "savages" and that the agency is helping investigate the killing. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

FBI’s facial recognition technology goes fully operational

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

This photo provided by the Weber County Jail shows John Huggins. Investigators say the 47-year-old Utah man accused of wanting to kill police officers and blow up a police department kept detailed logs of law enforcement activity. FBI agents and Tremonton police arrested Huggins on Thursday on a charge of possessing an unregistered destructive device. (AP Photo/Weber County Jail)

Trial set for Utah man accused in police bomb plot

By MICHELLE L. PRICE - Associated Press

Jill Kelley leaves her home in Tampa, Fla., in this Nov. 13, 2012, file photo. U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Jill Kelley can press her claim that the FBI and Defense Department violated her privacy when officials allegedly leaked information about her to the news media. Berman also tossed out more than a dozen other claims of government wrongdoing. (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara, File)

Judge: Lawsuit in Petraeus scandal can proceed

Associated Press

An FBI agent waits to receive his assigned weapon. (Image: FBI.gov) **FILE **

FBI: 2013 attack on Silicon Valley power grid easy to execute

Associated Press

Cars drive under a grid of power lines crossing the 5 Highway Friday, March 27, 1998, in Los Angeles. California will try a second time to launch a deregulated, $23 billion electricity market designed to lower rates and improve efficiency through competition. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)

FBI believes 1 shooter involved in grid attack

Associated Press

** FILE ** This undated file image posted on a militant website on Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows fighters from the al Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Colorado woman pleads guilty in terror case

By SADIE GURMAN - Associated Press

** FILE ** Passengers are seen at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria, Monday, Aug. 4, 2014. Nigerian authorities on Monday confirmed a second case of Ebola in Africa's most populous country, an alarming setback as officials across the region battle to stop the spread of a disease that has killed more than 700 people. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)

U.S. air marshal assaulted in Nigeria with filled syringe

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times

** FILE ** (Associated Press)

FBI told Texas campaign workers gave voters cocaine for 2012 commissioner bid

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

Women from the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant's al-Khansaa' Brigade. (Image: SyriaDeeply.org)

Minnesota woman left U.S. to fight for Islamic State: FBI

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

FILE - This March 26, 1947, file photo shows Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover calling the communist party of the United States a &quot;Fifth Column&quot; whose &quot;goal is the overthrow of our government&quot; during testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee in Washington. Fearing a Russian invasion and occupation of Alaska, the U.S. government in the early Cold War years recruited and trained fishermen, bush pilots, trappers and other private citizens across Alaska for a covert network to feed wartime intelligence to the military, newly declassified Air Force and FBI documents show. Hoover teamed up on a highly classified project, code-named “Washtub,” with the newly created Air Force Office of Special Investigations, headed by Hoover protege and former FBI official Joseph F. Carroll. (AP Photo/File)

U.S. trained Alaskans as secret ‘stay-behind agents’

By ROBERT BURNS - Associated Press

** FILE ** Ron McCracken of Dallas pays his respects at a makeshift memorial honoring to the victims of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings ahead of Monday's 118th Boston Marathon, Sunday, April 20, 2014, in Boston. McCracken's race last year was cut short due to bombings and Monday's race will mark his 14th year running in the Boston Marathon. The memorial is where the second of two explosions happened last year near the finish line. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

FBI homeland terror assessment omits Islamist threats

By Bill Gertz - The Washington Free Beacon

The office of JPMorgan Chase & Co. in San Francisco is pictured in 2008. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

FBI investigating reports of attacks on US banks

Associated Press

Demonstrators chant pro-al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as they carry al Qaeda flags in front of the provincial government headquarters in Mosul, 225 miles (360 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo)

California terrorism suspect denies US attack plot

Associated Press

FILE - In this July 12, 2012, file photo, former FBI Director Louis Freeh speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia. Freeh has been hospitalized following a single-car crash in Vermont. State police say Freeh was airlifted to a New Hampshire hospital with serious injuries following the crash Monday, Aug. 25, 2014, in Barnard. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Louis Freeh, ex-FBI director, breaks leg in Vermont car crash

By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times