From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center.

Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty.

The Armstrong and Getty show. No. is at a whole another level with a number of terror groups including ISIS and al-Qaeda

using social media to call for attacks including right here in the US.

The DOJ also seeing a spike in threats against the Muslim community and a stunning increase in threats aimed at Jewish Americans since October 7th.

Gray is calling on Congress to renew a law that allows the FBI to conduct surveillance on suspected

terrorists overseas. That law is set to expire at the end of the year.

Ray says given the threats, now is not the time to let that happen.

FBI Director Ray saying he's never seen all lights blinking like this at once and is really

worried about a terrorist attacker that sort of thing.

Now the other part of this is and this is a real problem and I don't know what to think about it.

He testified all of this on the same day that he's begging Congress to renew the 702 authority

that's the name of the code or statute or whatever he the FBI is wanting Congress to renew the 702 authority that they got after 9-11 to track down information, tap phones, look at communication, that sort of stuff on

foreigners, which sometimes then brings in Americans, American citizens to try to

figure out if there's going to be a terrorist attack. We did that after 9-11.

It was supposed to expire at the end of this year. You got a bunch of Democrats and Republicans. I mean some of the

heavyweight Democrats yesterday who are leaning against renewing

this because they think the FBI has abused it and hasn't been honest about their use of it

and plenty of Republicans saying that that they are using this

702 authority you know okay somebody we don't like in the United States

communicated with somebody in another country now we can claim we need to go

after that person in another country, but we're really wanting to look at the person here in the United

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