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Upstarts like Boko Haram turn back clock on terrorism fight

JJ Green, WTOP national security correspondent

FBI’s D.C. office finds itself at center of growing terror storm

WASHINGTON — The Washington Field Office of the FBI (WFO) has been busy lately. In addition to the normal complement of criminal, espionage, terror, cyber and drug threats facing the nation’s capital, the convergence of a swarm of new challenges face the 1,600 men and women who work there. The confluence of rapidly evolving communications technology, the resurgence of aggression from hostile nation-states and rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has placed WFO in the center of a growing storm.
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