FBI Director: Intelligence Will Have to Use 'Lone Wolf' Provision (CQ,10/6/11)

"FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III told Congress last week that two
controversial provisions in the 2001 anti-terrorism law known as the Patriot
Act will be especially important for adapting to the threat of domestic
radicalization and the challenges of a wireless communications world. Both
Mueller and Matthew G. Olsen, director of the National Counterterrorism
Center, told the House Select Intelligence Committee that U.S. citizens and
residents, inspired by groups like al Qaeda but lacking any actual contacts
that intelligence agencies could track, present a serious national security
threat.

"That is probably the greatest challenge that we face," Olsen said. For such
instances of so-called lone wolf attackers, the Patriot Act included a
provision that allows investigators to apply to a special court for
surveillance orders on suspects who are not connected to any terrorism
organization. The language is one of three provisions within the law that lack
permanent authorization "
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