Experts: ISIS building 'kill lists' of Americans overseas https://t.co/pENdWzRwI4
— Washington Examiner (@dcexaminer) April 5, 2016
The Islamic State is using social media to identify Americans overseas who can be targeted outside of a secure location, experts warned a Senate panel Tuesday.
"One of the emerging tactics that ISIS in particular is trying to use is stalking and killing its foes, especially those who are affiliated with governments," Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, during a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee hearing. "Basically, taking them out of the government sphere, making them individuals who can be tracked."