In the hours after the U.S. began its military operation in Iran, a cascade of national security departments and agencies, including the FBI and Homeland Security, began notifying the public that they would be stepping up their activities around the country because of a heightened risk of international and domestic terrorism.
But after a year of federal budget cuts, resignations, firings, layoffs and a reshuffling of the Trump administration’s priorities, some national security experts are worried about the ability of those agencies to respond.
“The administration has reduced U.S. capabilities in this area, so the United States might be more vulnerable than it was a year ago,” said Daniel Byman, director of the Warfare of Irregular Threats and Terrorism program at the non-partisan Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C.
“Key institutions like the CIA and the FBI have both had large-scale layoffs,” Byman said. “Within these organizations, we’ve seen shifts in resources. So, FBI agents, for example, were transferred from counter-terrorism to policing immigration.”
This is the other half of the story that you’re looking for. Kash fucking Patel was told (because he’s a complete fucking idiot and a consummate tool, and is incapable of having novel thoughts) to leave the back door open and unlocked and unsupervised, in a situation that is clearly going to create numerous and meaningful threats from a particular hostile state that we are now bombing the shit out of.
So my money is that this is all part of The Plan (i.e. that they’re very intentionally leaving a huge opening for Iran to do something terroristic in the US), which will be used as a justification for, amongst other things, fully occupying Iran and fucking with and/or outright canceling the US federal midterm elections in November.