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CIA Chief: Terrorists Harder to Find, Because of Leaks, Reforms

posted by cmn32480 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @05:02PM   Printer-friendly

An Anonymous Coward writes:

On Monday at the Center for Strategic & International Studies' Global Security Forum, John Brennan, Director of the US' Central Intelligence Agency, spoke about the recent bombings in Paris. In what many commentators took as a reference to Edward Snowden, but could instead refer to the Church Committee, Brennan predicted that finding the attackers will be more difficult than it would have been, had intelligence services been left unchecked:

In the past several years, because of a number of unauthorized disclosures and a lot of hand-wringing over the government's role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists, there have been some policy and legal and other actions that are taken that make our ability collectively, internationally to find these terrorists much more challenging.

I do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call particularly in areas of Europe where I think there has been a misrepresentation of what the intelligence security services are doing by some quarters that are designed to undercut those capabilities.

[...]

There are a lot of technological capabilities that are available right now that make it exceptionally difficult both technically as well as legally for intelligence security services to have insight that they need to uncover it.

Brennan's complete remarks are available in video via C-SPAN.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:56PM

    by jdavidb (5690) on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:56PM (#265083) Homepage Journal

    Well, I don't believe in "we," so we should each be able to make our decision on that.

    BTW - at least one of the Paris attackers was in possession of a Syrian passport that indicated he was a "refugee". It's not certain that the passport legally belonged to the man who was carrying it, but he did indeed have a refugee's passport.

    That's actually addressed as point 1 in the link I posted, but nobody ever reads those. :)

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:54AM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:54AM (#265197) Journal

    Gotcha! I did click the link. I did read your link. As stated, I disagree with it.

    • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday November 19 2015, @04:35PM

      by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday November 19 2015, @04:35PM (#265389) Homepage Journal
      Man, that cheats me out of a chance to make a "noone ever reads the articles around here" joke...
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