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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: 3, Interesting) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday November 18 2015, @06:57PM
Freedom is more important than safety.
Hell, if we're giving up freedoms for safety why don't we all just convert to Islam and get it over with? That would be the safest we could possibly get, right?
(Score: 3, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:03PM
Hell, if we're giving up freedoms for safety why don't we all just convert to Islam and get it over with? That would be the safest we could possibly get, right?
No, because once all the infidels are dead it's back to killing each other. And really, it wouldn't matter what religion everyone converted to, the end result would be the same.
(Score: 1) by saltycraig on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:09PM
My piousness is more pious than yours, kill him!
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Thursday November 19 2015, @01:29AM
No, because once all the infidels are dead it's back to killing each other.
You say "back" as if it ever stopped! Hell, it's never even been the minority.
(Score: 1) by redneckmother on Wednesday November 18 2015, @07:13PM
You beat me to it...
+1 for your post.
The US government is subverting the Constitution, and a way of life. The terrorists have won.
Mas cerveza por favor.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Bogsnoticus on Thursday November 19 2015, @12:04AM
Yeah, because we have all seen exactly how well the Sunni, Shi'ah, Ahmadiyya and Khawarij sects all get along with each other. :|
Genius by birth. Evil by choice.