Posted on 06/17/2016 7:22:43 AM PDT by Kaslin
Contrary to President Obama’s more upbeat assessment of ISIS earlier this week—that we’re ‘making significant progress’ in the fight against the terror group and that they’re ‘under more pressure than ever before’—CIA Director John Brennan gave a more stark account of the group’s abilities and influence.
Despite efforts by the U.S. and its allies to strike the terror group, its “terrorism capability and global reach” have not been hampered, he said at a hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday.
"We judge that ISIL is training and attempting to deploy operatives for further attacks. ISIL has a large cadre of western fighters who could potentially serve as operatives for attacks in the West. The group is probably exploring a variety of means for infiltrating operatives into the West, including in refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate methods of travel," Brennan added.
Brennen echoed the president in detailing the group’s territorial losses in Iraq and Syria. He said they’re struggling to replenish fighters and getting squeezed financially.
However, he said ISIS is “resilient” and likely will adapt, and warned coalition gains in Iraq and Syria are not blunting its capacity to carry out deadly operations abroad.
"Unfortunately, despite all our progress against ISIL on the battlefield and in the financial realm, our efforts have not reduced the group's terrorism capability and global reach,” he said. “The group's foreign branches and global networks can help preserve its capacity for terrorism regardless of events in Iraq and Syria. In fact, as the pressure mounts on ISIL, we judge that it will intensify its global terror campaign to maintain its dominance of the global terrorism agenda.”
He also noted that the number of ISIS fighters is now greater than al Qaeda’s at its peak. “We’re talking about tens of thousands of individuals,” he said.
Moreover, the Orlando attack demonstrates that they’re still working to inspire sympathizers with no direct links to the group to carry out attacks, he told lawmakers.
Awww....Ya think???????
NSS.
“...all our progress against ISIL...”
Huh???????
What???!!!! Is he serious? Jeeeezzzz...I need to be more respectful and stop talking crap. These people are just such visionaries. They are so far ahead of the rest of us that’s it’s just embarrassing.../s
Wa-a-a-ay behind the curve.
Anyone else notice the big contradiction between what Obama says and what the CIA director says??
And, given that his CIA director says that they will infiltrate the refugee streams, to plant ISIS operatives in the US, how the hell can Obama justify fast tracking even more refugees into this country??? When we can’t vet these people at all????? And then we are told that we are bigots if we don’t want more refugees. And we’re Islamophobic and all thath.
I am Islamophobic. We should push back against the liberals. Yes, we are Islamophobic, because we have seen what radical Muslims do.
A little late to be shutting the barn door.
The secret is out
Does 0bama care???? No!
I'm shocked.
Hijra is a concept he would be familiar with.
He is one of them.
Emigration for the purpose of spreading Islam.
It is the obligation of every muslim to spread Islam worldwide by any means necessary.
Submit or die.
Really? Seriously? How astute of him to figure that out.
The idiot. Why be a refugee? Most of the Isis guys are from France Germany and England. They have nothing on their passports that indicates isis.
They can just walk out to Paris airport or gatwick, get on an airliner and fly to America as a tourist, no Visa needed.
We already hand honest to godo, full on isis killers from syria here right now.
I am Islamophobic.
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Islamophobia - Irrational fear of Islam.
I submit that it is not irrational to fear evil.
The term is an oxymoron.
ISIS doesn’t need to bring in terrorists through the refugee flows into the USA. There are too many Muslims already living in the USA that are easily recruited to do ISIS’ bidding, like for example the shooter from last weekend....
I don’t get it. Is it PRO or ANTI Trump?..........................
That’s what I meant. I meant to say that I have fear of Muslims and Islam. And no, it’s not an irrational fear.
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