The FBI?s initiative to conduct ?threat assessments? of prison populations in order to, according to Acting Assistant Chief of the FBI?s Los Angeles office Randy Parsons, ??assess and disrupt the recruitment and conversion of inmates to radicalized ideologies which advocate violence? is an extremely trenchant and advantageous counter-terrorism strategy. The move echoes similar recommendations from the July 20, 2005 WAR Report, which suggested that in order to identify the subtle indicator signatures of radicalization activities of indigenous or homegrown terrorist groups within the United States, counter-terrorism agencies must develop:

revolutionized indications and warning analytic frameworks, and surveillance and sensor networks on the part of local counter-terrorism agencies so as to monitor the venues, operational dimensions, and conduits of Islamist extremist radicalization activity, particularly of the so-called clean individuals, to include Islamist extremist mosques, trips abroad to known hotbeds of Islamist extremism such as in Pakistan or Saudi Arabia , gangs like MS-13 or Mara-18 , or local jails. Further, these indications and warning systems must also monitor communities and individuals potentially psycho-socially susceptible to embracing violent radical ideologies like militant Islamist extremism as well as radical groups?political activist groups or gangs?displaying indicators that they are organizing for violent or terrorist activity.