In related news, Sheila Jackson Lee is still dumb.

Via Grabien:

MSNBC: And let’s talk a little about that, congresswoman, because the fact is, as you said on this hearing you attended just last week there are very real threats, terrorist threats against Americans, and even right here in the homeland. How concerned are you about that reality in our future?

SJL: Jose, I have — I call it a privilege. It certainly was a tragic privilege of serving on the homeland security committee since the heinous acts of 9/11. Many of us were there on the first opening day gavel of this committee. I had the onerous responsibility of visiting ground zero in those early, early days. I would say to you that we are now at a stark moment in history, the convergence of the ISIS, the ISIL approach, to establishing a state, its commitment to franchise terrorism, its direction that says, if you cannot come to be a foreign fighter, then stay at home and create havoc. That means that all of the world is facing a new phenomena of terrorism. The United States has been very fortunate. But the homeland security department, I must say, in the new legislative initiatives and pressures, to ensure there is communication on intelligence, which did not occur in the way it should have pre-9/11 that there’s is communication now that all of the agencies are talking,