Video above: Federal, local authorities discuss alleged New Year Eve terrorist attack thwarted in Southern California
An “intense” investigation by multiple agencies led to the thwarting of a terrorist attack plot targeting multiple locations in Southern California, federal officials announced.
The Department of Justice and the FBI’s investigation “prevented what would have been a massive and horrific plot in the Central District of California,” United States Attorney General Pam Bondi stated on Monday morning. She referred to the Central District of California as Orange County and Los Angeles (in reality, the district includes Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura counties.)…