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CIA chief Brennan looks at Turkish attack and sees a warning for Americans
Yahoo News ^ | June 29, 2016 | Daniel Klaidman

Posted on 06/29/2016 6:34:23 AM PDT by detective

Four hours after three suicide bombers killed at least 41 people and wounded hundreds more at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport, CIA Director John Brennan said the attacks bore the grim hallmarks of ISIS and warned that the fanatically violent Islamic terrorist group wants to conduct similar large-scale attacks in the United States.

“I am worried from the standpoint of an intelligence professional who looks at the capabilities of Daesh … and their determination to kill as many as people as possible and to carry out attacks abroad,” Brennan said in an exclusive interview at CIA headquarters with Yahoo News. Brennan credited effective homeland security measures and intelligence for the fact that ISIS has been unable to attack America directly — the Orlando and San Bernardino shootings were carried out by radicals inspired by ISIS but not under its control — but he believes the group will keep trying to penetrate American defenses.

“You look at what happened in the Turkish airport, these were suicide vests. It’s not that difficult to actually construct and fabricate a suicide vest … so if you have a determined enemy and individuals who are not concerned about escape, that they are going into it with a sense that they are going to die, that really does complicate your strategy in terms of preventing attacks.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; US: Florida; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2016election; attack; bhocia; brennan; cia; counterterrorism; election2016; globaljihad; ist; jihadinamerica; newyork; terror; trump; turkey
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To: 1Old Pro

If they want to kill infidels without consequence, they should want Hillary to be President. She has a record of enabling it.


41 posted on 06/29/2016 7:20:15 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (If the Orlando terrorist does not represent all Muslims, why does he represent all gun-owners?)
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To: rdcbn; ExTexasRedhead

“I think Brennan is far more concerned with keeping himself out of jail”

“Bad times are coming to America and he knows it because he caused it”

“Warning for Americans is Obama and Hillary and their cohorts and enablers in Congress.”

BUMP! BUMP!


42 posted on 06/29/2016 7:30:52 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: detective
ZACLY why I called BS on the “no warning” statement.

Now whether Turkish airport security is in CIA’s purview, I have no idea. But to say there was “no warning”.... ‘though I guess if Brennan didn't get a call from one of the bombers giving the date, time, location and number and names of the attackers, perhaps “no warning” would be correct./s

43 posted on 06/29/2016 7:31:05 AM PDT by Roccus (POLITICIAN....JOURNALIST..............." four letter words" spelled with ten letters.)
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To: SkyDancer

The millennial bombers were headed to LAX when they were arrested coming off a ferry from Canada. So we have known since then that the check in or security mob scene at International Airports has been a target. I stopped using LAX for my flights for just that reason.


44 posted on 06/29/2016 7:31:34 AM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: pugmama
I mean I am going to small airports in Minnesota on business and I am seeing hajib wearing Muslim women as security or cleaning ladies, etc.

In my head I am wondering if these are Somali or Syrian refugees and the govt gave them low wage jobs at the airport?

45 posted on 06/29/2016 7:32:55 AM PDT by Trumpinator ("Are you Batman?" the boy asked. "I am Batman," Trump said. youtube.com/watch?v=HZA9k7WAuiY)
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To: Oldexpat

I have two thoughts: One, they might do it at a smaller airport where security may be more limited (MLI/ Moline,IL/SBA -Santa Barbara,CA are good examples) or two, a larger one where it would cause more damage/deaths such as JFK or LAX.


46 posted on 06/29/2016 7:39:10 AM PDT by SkyDancer ("They Say That Nobody's Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: detective
Who is to blame for ISIS and their attacks on the world? King Obama when he gave up what we lost blood and sweat in Iraq and gave ISIS half the land to organize. King Obama is the guilty rat.
47 posted on 06/29/2016 7:42:17 AM PDT by Logical me
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To: rdcbn

I think Brennan is far more concerned with keeping himself out of jail
Bad times are coming to America and he knows it because he caused it
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Didn’t Brennan covert to islam? And is the CBS reporter, Margaret Brennan related to Brennan?


48 posted on 06/29/2016 7:43:58 AM PDT by BarbM (FUBO)
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To: detective

That means, the best strategy is keeping them out of our country to start with.

The last thing the Obama administration has been doing.


49 posted on 06/29/2016 7:44:14 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: detective
How come the news reported this as a terrorist attack? What happened to “ motive has not been determined”?

Also, what's up with the Daesh moniker they keep using and trying to get us to use? Supposedly it's some sort of insult to ISIS/ISIL..I think it's deflection and refuse to use the term.

50 posted on 06/29/2016 7:46:38 AM PDT by KittenClaws ( Normalcy Bias. Do you have it?)
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To: rdcbn

Daesh is an acronym for the Arabic name of the Islamic State, better known as ISIS or ISIL

We must be respectful and use the Arabic term! /s Obama started calling it ISIL so no one could bring up his statement that Syria wasn’t at risk. And I suspect Obama resurrected the walls against intelligence sharing, that were in place during the Clinton Admin. The walls that didn’t allow us to connect the dots and prevent 9/11/01. All our enemies know all our intelligence and all our other secrets. Cleaning house after the Obamas leave is going to be a monumental task.


51 posted on 06/29/2016 7:47:55 AM PDT by originalbuckeye ("In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." - George Orwell)
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To: detective

Isn’t Brennan a muzzie convert? Seriously.


52 posted on 06/29/2016 8:04:39 AM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Trumpinator

Fox Hen-house! And then there is the biological warfare against us via TB infected etc illegals being SPREAD throughout the US by Obola!


53 posted on 06/29/2016 8:35:51 AM PDT by Harpotoo
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To: Hillarys Gate Cult
One wonders how much more of a pain in the rear increased security our airports will take to prevent attacks like the one in Turkey.

Well, considering that our "security" measures are not for actual security but rather (a) the appearance of security, and (b) the cultivation of an unthinking submissive-to-authority mindset I can't really say... but I suspect anything that comes from it.

54 posted on 06/29/2016 8:43:35 AM PDT by Edward.Fish
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To: PghBaldy
Obama says it does not matter if we call it radical islamic terrorism,

even though that's all it ever is. Muslims Muslims Muslims.

55 posted on 06/29/2016 8:53:17 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory ((ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government))
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To: detective

This excellent book by Kenneth R. Timmerman says that Brennan was one of the architects of the Democrats' mess in Libya/Syria, as well as indicting Hillary for her overweening "war-president" ambitions.

56 posted on 06/29/2016 9:08:46 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
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To: detective
It is clear that the U.S. has no intelligence on who did this and had no warning.

The U.S. had piles of intelligence on this and plenty of warnings. The Obama Administration and the Clinton State Department ignored the intelligence and the hundreds of warnings to further the Obama/Hillary narrative that the "war" in Libya was over and al Qaeda was crushed in order to get him re-elected.

57 posted on 06/29/2016 9:12:08 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (We will no longer surrender this country to the false song of globalism. –Donald Trump)
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To: Trumpinator

Been to the Houston airport recently?


58 posted on 06/29/2016 9:15:24 AM PDT by pugmama (Ports Moon.)
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To: pugmama

I was just telling my mother about the Houston airport looking like I was in an Arab airport. Kemah boardwalk same way. We are not America any more.


59 posted on 06/29/2016 9:18:38 AM PDT by In God I trust
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To: Trumpinator

And never forget, they are the ones that serviced [fueled,cleaned, ect.] the airplane you are flying in. One day, they will get the word to do thus and thus and at the appointed time.....boom.


60 posted on 06/29/2016 9:20:25 AM PDT by sport
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