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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: 2) by Runaway1956 on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:49PM
So what if only 1% of Muslims are terrorists? I disagree, but so what if it's true? 1% of 1.5 BILLION yeilds 15 million terrorists. So - if only 1% of Muslims are terrorists, that means that Islam has the biggest army in the world. And, the biggest army in the world is not a signatory to the Geneva Conventions (any of them).
And, the morons don't find that to be terrifying?
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by dry on Thursday November 19 2015, @07:38AM
I live close to the United States of America, a country that has elected Reagan, a couple of Bush's and various other religious nutjobs, which is truly terrifying. A country that goes around the world doing regime change, which in the case of Iraq, left a failed state, basically in civil war, with a whole generation of young men who don't really give a shit about religion but they sure are angry with no future or earnings and when ISIS offers them a $100 a month to be a combatant, they grab it, and they're happy to kill westerners as westerners have been killing them.
It's not Muslims that are the problem, it is people who don't like being conquered and treated like shit.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:03PM
Muslims have been beheading people around the world for longer than I've been alive. I'll agree that Bush was an ignorant ass, but Bush didn't light this particular fire.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.