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Intelligence Committee Heads: Terror Threat Rising
ABC News ^ | Dec 1, 2013 | AP

Posted on 12/01/2013 6:59:24 AM PST by Innovative

The terrorism threat against the United States is increasing and Americans aren't as safe as they were a year or two ago, the leaders of the House and Senate intelligence committees said.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein said there are more terrorist groups than ever, with more sophisticated and hard-to-detect bombs. The California Democrat said "there is huge malevolence out there."

Rep. Mike Rogers said there's enormous pressure on U.S. intelligence services "to get it right, to prevent an attack."

The Michigan Republican said that job is getting more difficult because al-Qaida is changing, with more affiliates around the world. He said those are groups that once operated independently of but have now joined with al-Qaida.

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: alqaeda; alqaida; alquaida; obama; terrorism; terrorthreat; threatmatrix
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More Obama "success stories"... (/sarc)
1 posted on 12/01/2013 6:59:24 AM PST by Innovative
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To: Innovative

wow, who would have thought that appeasing terrorists will only encourage them?


2 posted on 12/01/2013 7:01:07 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Innovative

I don’t believe them. Our Press dent has assured the nation that the terrorists are “on the run.”


3 posted on 12/01/2013 7:02:33 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Innovative

Scary...!

Hey, time to trust our leaders more and give up just a bit more freedom, riiight...? Sure!

Time to fund DHS with some more ammo and MRAPs.

Suuuure..!


4 posted on 12/01/2013 7:02:35 AM PST by gaijin
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To: Innovative

Timing is probably connected to the upcoming election.


5 posted on 12/01/2013 7:02:45 AM PST by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Innovative

Feinstein, the one who originally admonished harry Reid to go nuclear.

Feinstein, the one who hates your guns.

Feinstein, the SF pol who was VERY close to the Reverand Jim Jones, who killed ALL of his followers.


6 posted on 12/01/2013 7:04:58 AM PST by gaijin
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I feel a whole lot safer with Democrats in charge (sarc)...
7 posted on 12/01/2013 7:05:30 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks ("Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth.")
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To: Yorlik803

Obama said the War on Terror is over, so it must be so...

Bush’s war on terror is over

http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/24/opinion/bergen-end-of-terror-war/

EXCERPT:

“For the first time on Thursday, President Obama laid out the full scope of his proposed counterterrorism strategy, and it boiled down to this: George W. Bush’s endless war on terror is over.

And that’s appropriate, since the enemy Bush went to war with after September 11 has largely been defeated.

Obama’s speech at the National Defense University in Washington was designed to lay the political groundwork to wind down America’s longest war, the war that began when al Qaeda destroyed the World Trade Center and a wing of the Pentagon 12 years ago.

Thursday’s speech was the first time Obama had delivered an overarching framework for how to conceptualize the conflict that has defined U.S. national security policy since 9/11.”


8 posted on 12/01/2013 7:05:36 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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One more statement (see my post above) — Obma said this in May 2013:

“In short, Obama intends to end a seemingly endless war.

That’s because, according to Obama, “the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us.”


9 posted on 12/01/2013 7:07:06 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

The war is over only the terrorists didn’t read the newspapers.


10 posted on 12/01/2013 7:07:42 AM PST by Yorlik803 ( Church/Caboose in 2016)
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To: Innovative

Is the administration going to pull a false flag to detract from the utter failure of obamneycare?


11 posted on 12/01/2013 7:07:52 AM PST by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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Not this one — the terror threat has been rising, terrorists are emboldened because they know they have nothing to fear from Obama.


12 posted on 12/01/2013 7:08:52 AM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Innovative

The scary part: They aren’t referring to the Islamic terrorists, but to the majority of the population of this country who are unhappy and angry about how the government is crapping on the Constitution.


13 posted on 12/01/2013 7:14:24 AM PST by Darksheare (Try my coffee, first one's free..... Even robots will kill for it!)
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But, but, but I thought "Al Qaeda has been decimated, scattered across North Africa and the Middle East and able to launch only small-scale attacks"

Hmmmmmm

14 posted on 12/01/2013 7:17:57 AM PST by jpsb (Believe nothing until it has been officially denied)
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Our government is infested with islamists and there are islamist military style training camps and duplicitous mosques all over the nation where the order of the day is death to Americans.

What could go wrong?


15 posted on 12/01/2013 7:25:24 AM PST by onedoug
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To: Innovative
Feinstein spoke generally of "a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community, and that is that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that's going to solve this is Islamic Sharia law and the concept of the caliphate."

Does she understand that she is referring to the leader of her party?

16 posted on 12/01/2013 7:36:40 AM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: Innovative
Now that Iran's rolled us - and very successfully - it's just gonna get worse...
17 posted on 12/01/2013 7:48:14 AM PST by GOPJ ("Remember who the real enemy is... ")
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That’s because, according to Obama, “the core of al Qaeda in Afghanistan and Pakistan is on the path to defeat. Their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us.”

Yeah, they moved to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Dearborn...

If only they'd stop financing them,

18 posted on 12/01/2013 7:49:58 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Sirius Lee

Rumors on the web say they tried already, but some folks shut it down...


19 posted on 12/01/2013 7:51:11 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Innovative
I see it like this either we have an economic meltdown and kaos in the streets, a race war and kaos in the streets or a terrorist event and kaos in the streets. Anyone of these planned senarios will allow the rat king to bring us martial law and a king for life
20 posted on 12/01/2013 8:04:37 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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