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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.
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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: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 18 2015, @06:54PM
That's fine with me. I'm a lot more scared of the U.S. government than of terrorists.
Logical conclusion considering you are more likely to be killed by the government (or hell, even a family member) than by a terrorist.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by jdavidb on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:33PM
That's fine with me. I'm a lot more scared of the U.S. government than of terrorists.
Logical conclusion considering you are more likely to be killed by the government (or hell, even a family member) than by a terrorist.
Even if they don't kill me, they are the ones who daily violate the right to life, liberty, and property around here. Yes, terrorists are scary, but most of the oppression is committed by the ones crying they can't stop terrorists.
My thinking is a lot like Muhammad Ali's: "Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?" "My enemy is the white people, not the Viet Cong ... You're my opposer when I want freedom. You're my opposer when I want justice. You're my opposer when I want equality. You won't even stand up for me in America because of my religious beliefs, and you want me to go somewhere and fight, when you won't even stand up for my religious beliefs at home." A lot has changed since his day, but the ones I see most often threatening life liberty and property are still here local, not on the other side of the globe.
(BTW, Ali said "religious beliefs," but I don't discriminate between religious beliefs and other beliefs. Liberty is liberty, regardless of your reason, justification, or creed.)
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