The government’s homeland security secretary says the United States is safer now than it was in 2001 against what he calls “another 9/11-style attack.”

But Jeh (jay) Johnson — making the rounds of the Sunday news shows — says the country is “challenged when it comes to the prospects of the lone-wolf actor, the homegrown violent extremists.”

He tells NBC’s “Meet the Press” that requires “a new, whole of government response and public participation and vigilance.”

(AP)