Dec 2: Sen. Dianne Feinstein and Rep. Mike Rogers on CNN’s State of The Union, Feinstein stated “Terror is up worldwide,” “The statistics indicate that. The fatalities are way up.” Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, argued the terror group Al Qaeda continues to grow and consolidate. “What’s happening in places like Syria [is] that you have a pooling of Al Qaeda and affiliates. … Groups have changed the way they communicate, which means it’s less likely that we’re going to be able to detect something prior to an event.” “We’re fighting amongst ourselves here in this country about the role of our intelligence community,” he said. “That is having an impact on our ability to stop what is a growing number of threats. Our intelligence community isn’t the bad guys.” Rogers also said terrorists are adopting the idea that “maybe smaller events are OK” and still might achieve their goals. “That makes it exponentially harder for our intelligence services to stop an event like that from happening,” he said. Feinstein attributed the growing threat in part to improved weaponry. “There are new bombs, very big bombs, trucks being reinforced for those bombs,” she said.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 20:10:43 +0000
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