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"Our enemy is adaptive, so we must be too," House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Rep. Michael T. McCaul said. "Gone are the days of bin Laden, who relied on couriers and caves to plot attacks. This is a new generation of terrorists who exploit 21st century communications to spread their seventh century ideology, and it's allowed them to franchise their recruiting and crowdsource their violence." (Associated Press)

Michael T. McCaul, House Homeland Security chief, presses new counterterror strategy

By Carlo Muñoz - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael T. McCaul of the House Committee on Homeland Security said President Obama's policies have failed to dent the Islamic State. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

Michael McCaul blasts ‘willfully blind’ Obama for enabling ISIS ‘terror surge’

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael T. McCaul says President Obama's plan to allow 10,000 Syrian refugees into the U.S. may allow Islamic State operatives to sneak into the country among those seeking freedom. (Associated Press photographs)

Michael McCaul of Homeland Security Committee calls for end to Obama Syrian refugee program

By Seth McLaughlin - The Washington Times

President Obama mostly watched as the Islamic State, defeated by U.S. forces in 2009, reassembled the old al Qaeda in Iraq leadership apparatus across the border amid the turmoil of the Syrian civil war. (Associated Press)

ISIS expanded as Obama stayed on the sidelines

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael T. McCaul, Texas Republican. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

House panel’s ‘Terror Threat Snapshot’ shows sharp uptick in Islamic State plots

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

People wave flags as the Independence Day parade rolls down Main Street on July 4, 2014 in Eagar, Ariz. (Associated Press)

July 4 terrorist attack on U.S. soil a legitimate threat, officials warn

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

FBI crime scene investigators document evidence outside the Curtis Culwell Center, Monday, May 4, 2015, in Garland, Texas. Two men opened fire with assault weapons on police Sunday night who were guarding a contest for Muslim Prophet Muhammed cartoons. A police officer returned fire killing both men. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

Michael McCaul: ‘Terrorism has gone viral’ from Islamic State’s online recruitment

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

FBI crime scene investigators document evidence outside the Curtis Culwell Center, Monday, May 4, 2015, in Garland, Texas. Two men opened fire with assault weapons on police Sunday night who were guarding a contest for Muslim Prophet Muhammed cartoons. A police officer returned fire killing both men. (AP Photo/Brandon Wade)

White House raises ‘lone wolf’ scenario in Texas attack

By Dave Boyer and Andrea Noble - The Washington Times

Alejandro Mayorkas, the deputy secretary whose previous tenure as the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is under scrutiny, said when he did intervene in visa cases, it was to make sure his agency was following the law, not to give special treatment. (Associated Press)

Alejandro Mayorkas can’t remember Democrats seeking visa favors, only Republicans

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

FILE - In this Nov. 19, 2014 file photo, fighters from the Free Syrian Army, left, and the Kurdish People's Protection Units, center, join forces to fight Islamic State group militants in Kobani, Syria. Kurdish fighters in Syria have ambitions to become the chief force fighting Islamic State group extremists in the country - building on their victory in Kobani to ally with moderate rebels and push the jihadis ever further. They tout the alliance as a gamechanger in the Syria war as well: the emergence of the effective moderate rebel force that the West has been looking to ally with all along. (AP Photo/Jake Simkin, File)

Islamic State territory now ‘the size of Belgium’: lawmaker

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Rep. Peter T. King, New York Republican, said that his hearings on homegrown Muslim terrorism in 2011 have been vindicated in the ensuing years after many American Muslims have traveled overseas to join the Islamic State organization's ongoing campaign of terror. (associated press)

Peter T. King says Islamic State terror justifies 2011 Muslim House hearings

By S.A. Miller - The Washington Times

In this Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, immigration rights protesters sit out in front of the House of Representatives after then-Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer gave her State of the State address at the Arizona Capitol, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

GOP border bill faces opposition from conservatives

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

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Secure border, punish illegals: Republicans answer amnesty with tough measures

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks with Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson in the Cabinet Room of the White House, July 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Obama immigration flip-flops prove problematic for Jeh Johnson

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Sen. Lindsey Graham says the Chris Christie scandal is a reflection on the New Jersey governor even though some of his aides were at the center of it. "It seems to me that this whole bridge thing reinforces a narrative that's troublesome about the guy. He's kind of a bully," the South Carolina Republican says. (Associated Press)

Republicans unconvinced Obama taking Islamic State threat seriously enough

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

FILE - In this July 17, 2014, file photo,. Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., gestures as she speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Menendez threatened Thursday, July 24, to block U.S. arms sales to Iraq if Congress doesn't get an assessment of Iraqi forces and assurances the weapons won't fall into the hands of extremist militants.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Senators: Obama must defeat Islamic State to prevent another 9/11-scale attack

The Washington Times

Texas Gov. Rick Perry said the border is less secure than in recent years and that the surge of minors crossing into the U.S. illegally has become a major distraction for immigration agents. (Associated Press)

Texas Gov. Rick Perry says U.S. border less secure now

By Stephen Dinan and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Rep. Michael McCaul, Texas Republican, said President Obama "elected to pull out of Afghanistan based on arbitrary timetables, as opposed to building on the progress and sacrifices of both our Armed Forces and the Afghan people." (Associated Press)

Inside the Beltway: Picking conflicts based on politics

By Jennifer Harper - The Washington Times

In this photo provided by the U.S. Navy, crew members on board an aircraft P-8A Poseidon assist in search-and-rescue operations for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the Indian Ocean on March 16, 2014. (Associated Press)

McCaul offers scenario where missing Malaysian jet lands in hostile country to be use as missile

By David Sherfinski - The Washington Times

** FILE ** President Obama finishes speaking in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington on April 16, 2013, about the Boston Marathon explosions. (Associated Press)

Lawmakers see ‘false narrative’ of Obama as a terrorist fighter

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times