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WASHINGTON — The rising threat from homegrown radicals makes terrorist plots against the U.S. harder to detect and more likely to succeed, top administration officials are slated to tell Congress today.

In written testimony to be delivered before the Senate Homeland Security Committee, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano and Michael Leiter, chief of the National Counterterrorism Center, each say terrorist threats have become more complex, with a greater array of plotters inspired by al-Qaeda without necessarily being directly linked to the terrorist network.

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