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Former CIA targeter Sarah Adams has been sounding an alarm about Islamist influence inside the United States, and conservatives should stop treating these warnings as fringe talk and start treating them as a national-security briefing. Adams — who spent years hunting terror operatives for the Agency — has been interviewed repeatedly about threats ranging from the Muslim Brotherhood’s political networks to sleeper cells on American soil. Her recent conversations, including an extended discussion on Christopher Rufo’s program, make plain that this is not theoretical fearmongering but fieldwork-based intelligence.
Adams’s résumé matters: she isn’t a pundit but a former targeting analyst with direct experience tracking jihadi networks across the world. She has described the methods terrorists and their enablers use to hide in plain sight while building influence through NGOs, charities, and academic institutions. Americans should listen when someone who mapped these threats for a living says the danger is growing inside our borders.
Most alarming is her assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood’s long-term strategy in the West: decades of patient political cultivation aimed at shaping institutions and policy in favor of Islamist goals. Adams explains that the Brotherhood’s operatives and networks have embedded themselves in civic groups and messaging campaigns, and that their political reach has been quietly fostered on both sides of the aisle. If true, this undercuts the comfortable narrative that the U.S. is immune to the same ideological penetration we see overseas.
Adams even lays out specific examples, describing how family networks and lobby-style organizations tied to foreign Islamist groups have gained footholds in U.S. policy circles and local institutions. She recounted cases in which relatives appeared in respectable civic roles while other family members were tied to extremist activity, illustrating how bad actors exploit American openness and bureaucracy. That’s a chilling playbook: use the freedoms of our system against the system itself.
Beyond organizational influence, Adams warns of an operational threat: al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other jihadist franchises maintain cells and active sympathizers who exploit asylum processes, campuses, and refugee flows to mingle with the population. She has discussed how deception campaigns conceal extremist intent and how radical networks leverage legal and charitable infrastructures to fund and recruit. Those who insist the homeland is safe because headline terror attacks are rare are ignoring the slow-burn infiltration that intelligence officers like Adams see every day.
Our political class owes Americans better than complacency and virtue-signaling. Instead of dismissing these warnings to avoid uncomfortable conversations, policymakers must prioritize border security, rigorous vetting, and a sober review of foreign-linked organizations that operate on U.S. soil. This isn’t xenophobia — it’s common-sense national defense: if adversaries are operating under the cover of NGOs and cultural institutions, we must rip away that cover with facts and enforcement.
The first step is simple accountability: hearings, audits, and prosecutions where evidence exists, led by officials who put the country ahead of applause lines and campaign donations. Sarah Adams has given a clear-eyed assessment based on years in the field; Americans who love liberty and safety should demand our leaders treat her warnings with the urgency they deserve.
