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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday November 18 2015, @10:38PM (#265120)

    Your number was already debunked. But even if it were accurate, it certainly wouldn't mean what you seem to think it means.

    I'm now too lazy to dig out numbers (and unlike you, I'm not ruthless enough to just pull them out of my ass), so I'll make up an extreme example to explain the point:

    Consider an imaginary country where there's almost no crime. Indeed, there's exactly one criminal in the whole country. Now this criminal happens to have blue eyes. Thus 100% of all crimes in that country are done by blue-eyed people. In your logic this implies that they should put massive surveillance on all blue-eyed people in that country in order to catch the criminal.