Last week’s attack on New Orleans’ Bourbon Street shows the “absolute necessity” of restoring monitoring activities that have gone by the wayside over the past four years with President Joe Biden in office, former Rep. Pete King said Sunday. 

“We’ve certainly cut back on surveillance,” the New York Republican said on Newsmax’s “Wake Up America Weekend.” “You hear the president say that the greatest threat to the country is white nationalism and not a word said about the many, many ISIS operatives who are here in the country, the Hezbollah operatives.”

Such people must be stopped before they can launch attacks, “and you can only do that by active surveillance, active monitoring,” King added. “My concern is we’re not doing that … we have to get lean and mean and be very tough in monitoring and stopping and preempting terrorist attacks.” 

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