Intel chairs respond to ISIS threat, Syrian refugee policy

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Face The Nation:

Nov 15, 2015

Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Sen. Richard Burr, R- North Carolina, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-California, discuss the United States’ response to the recent attack in Paris and the Syrian refugee crisis.

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CIA director warns of more ISIS attacks
Charles Hoskinson
11/16/15

Terrorists are getting better at hiding their plans from global intelligence agencies and it's important to find new ways to thwart their plans, CIA Director John Brennan said Monday. "I do hope that this is going to be a wake-up call," he said during a talk at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' annual Global Security Forum. "This is not the only operation that [the Islamic State] has in the pipeline."

Though Friday's terrorist attacks in Paris that killed 129 people and injured more than 350 appeared to have been planned weeks or months in advance and were preceded by warnings that the Islamic State was planning to strike in Europe or the United States, the plotters were able to take advantage of technologies and policies that shielded their efforts from detection by intelligence agencies, he said.

"Their operational security really is quite strong," he said. Brennan said European intelligence agencies also are overwhelmed by the sheer number of foreign fighters flowing in and out of Syria and Iraq, something that has been a major concern of Western officials since the Islamic State emerged more than a year ago as a force to be reckoned with. "Their ability to monitor and surveil these individuals is under strain," he said.

 

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