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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.

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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 HiThere on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:59PM

    by HiThere (866) on Wednesday November 18 2015, @08:59PM (#265085) Journal

    Even were the CIA to be behaving in a legal and ethical manner, they would have reason to hide some things.

    The problem is they have so abused that need so often that I no longer believe them when they claim a need for secrecy. Actually, I do believe them. I believe they need to hide something so illegal or so flagrantly immoral that even their bosses couldn't accept it.

    We'd be much better off disbanding the whole organization and starting over with a different structure and a totally different personnel. There is a valid function that they were created to serve, but they've essentially stopped serving it.

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  • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:18AM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:18AM (#265229)

    ...they would have reason to hide some things...

    And yet, we (as individuals, and citizens) are continually reminded / reprimanded that "if you're innocent, then you have nothing to hide".

    What a bunch of hypocrites. I say, if the gov is innocent, then THEY have nothing to hide. So, let's hear all the gory details of the gov's dealings / transgressions!

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  • (Score: 2) by mhajicek on Thursday November 19 2015, @05:21AM

    by mhajicek (51) Subscriber Badge on Thursday November 19 2015, @05:21AM (#265262)

    AFAIK the CIA became an independent power during Kennedy.

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