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.
Hmmm, is John Brennan going into CYA mode? Sure looks like it. I wonder what he knows that we don’t.
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.
Funny how JWB could control Al Qaeda during his tenure, with to my recollection , no Al Qaeda attacks on US soil, but Barky who deemphasized control of radicals has allowed a large force to grow, and commit acts on US Soil.
The MSM should be asking what did Bush do that was so effective.... Instead they gave us this fool, by bashing him and his policies.
Paging Cpt. Obvious. The only ones who won’t admit this are Hitlery and the Conspirator in Chief.
Trump for President. For what is left of America.
Even more reason to support Trump in my opinion.
We pay these asshats big money to state the obvious.
Conservatives have been saying this since the refugee stream started.
That actually blew my mind.
My fear is that they’re holding back for the most part, building an army on American soil. When they attack en masse, we’ll really be screwed.
The most irrational group on the planet, liberals/progressives/socialists, calls anyone who disagrees with their policies phobic.
Now that is irony.
That guy’s a genius.
Thanks captain obvious.
The Left does not realize that their attempts at vain humor are actually helping their opponent’s campaign..............the Left has no sense of humor..................
He’s talking about the Terrorist Organization The Department of Homeland Security DHS
The CIA Director is a racist bigot who just hates anyone who doesn’t look like him /liberals
Actually, this is cynical cia BS. They supported isis, created it, supplied it through benghazi and turkey.
He knows they are here and are about to attack us in some big way. He wants to be on the record as “warning” us. All a scam on his part.
AWEsome
My exact thought!!!!
Probably??
Supposedly he’s importing 3000 Syrians a month into the USA and United Nations of all things, said anywhere from 10 to 30% of these “refugees” could be radicalized. So in other words, Obama is willingly importing 900 terrorists into the USA every month which is yet again another act of treason by him.
No $#!+ Einstein!
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