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.
Well of course he knows they are coming the CIA is up to its eyeballs in the mideast. Just like they know what the drug cartels are up to because they are competition for the CIA’s drug running. Covert ops are expensive.
Hey, Hilliarily/Iman Obama, look at a mirror and at the faces of your inner circle to see who is responsible for Islamic Terrorism in America! It is not Trump's fault nor the NRA's fault!
ISIS has no Navy, no boats, no ships, no submarines. They have no Air Force, no bombers, no jet fighters, no troop carriers or refueling planes. ISIS has no ballistic missiles, no scuds, no short range missiles. They have no Space Program, no satellites, no real time intelligence.
THE ONLY WEAPON SYSTEMS ISIS HAS THAT CAN KILL AMERICANS ARE THE OBAMA/CLINTON/JARRETT/LYNCH/ DHS SECY JEH JOHNSON + the TRAITORS & DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS, FAUX News, ABCNNBCBS, Washington Compost, Ny Slimes, WHO DEMAND WE ALLOW MUSLIMS TO IMMIGRATE TO AMERICA TO SLAUGHTER INNOCENT AMERICANS.
Then, they try to disarm us to make us more vulnerable.
Peaceful Islamic ISIS future Killers arriving in America including a new immigrant under the watch of Obama! (photo ABC News)
Only probably? Now that’s funny!
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The image of having the head of the CIA and NHS bowing to satan would be pretty sobering to a lot of koolaid drinking leftists in this country.
Better late than never...
I am 76 years old.
I went to a one room grade school.
14 kids-—8 grades—1 teacher.
Maybe I should be running one of the SECURITY agencies of the USA.
I figured this out years ago.
The ‘refugees’ are really invaders who are doing the Trojan Horse trick-—without the wooden horse-—They have Obama & the Democrats helping them.
I was under the impression that they they already had.
No sh!t sherlock, tell us something we don't already know.
Attempted???
Succeeded...
Knock me over with a feather.
All the three-year-olds are happily married and stuffed into suitcases with breathing holes. Some of them may be orphans, though.
Obama is the ultimate Trojan Horse.
Something else to take note of is that no one in the dim party or their media is even objecting to any of this.
Their loyalties are showing and they seem to be proud of this.
You got to get up priiiiiiiiiity early in the morning.....
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