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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.
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:13PM
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Yes, of course, they get training. The same sort of training our soldiers get before going to war as part of an infantry company. Yes, they get ammo to go with those rifles. Yes, the get resupply. And, I prefer they serve any force in the field, so long as it is not Daesh. They can join the Kurds, the Yazidi, Assad, any force that has boots on the ground, and fights against Daesh. I'm not choosy.
As for breaking up families - whoop-ti-do. The family is already broken up, not through my doing. I have a man, a wife, and 1 to 12 children standing in line. Where's Grandma? Grandpa? (That's two each, of each - four persons.) Where are all the aunts and uncles, cousins, second cousins, etc ad nauseum? I am merely encouraging that man to go back and fight for his family, and providing him the means to fight.
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