2014: An interview with FBI Director James Comey
When FBI Director James Comey spoke earlier this week about the mass shooting at an Orlando gay nightclub, which killed 49 people and injured 53, he refused to name the lone shooter because he said he doesn't want to be part of his "twisted notion of fame and glory."
Comey echoed a similar view in a 2014 interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, explaining why the term "lone wolf" offends him.
"It conveys a sense of dignity I don't think they deserve," Comey told Pelley. "These homegrown violent extremists are troubled souls, who are seeking meaning in some misguided way. And so they come across the propaganda and they become radicalized on their own, sort of, independent study, and they're also able to equip themselves with training again through the internet, and then engage in jihad after emerging from their basement."
Instead of "lone wolf," Comey said he prefers the term, "lone rat."
In the case of Orlando shooter Omar Mateen -- who died in a shoot-out with Orlando police -- Comey said earlier this week: "We are highly confident that this killer was radicalized, and at least, in some part, through the Internet."
Watch "The Director," which aired in October 2014, in the player above.
