[VIDEO] Intel. Chairs: We’re Less Safe from Terrorism than a Decade Ago
Posted: December 1, 2013 Filed under: Think Tank, U.S. News, War Room | Tags: al Qaeda, Andrew Johnson, CNN, Dianne Feinstein, Mike Rogers, Rogers, Sunday, United States 1 CommentAndrew Johnson writes: The chairs of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees believe the United States is not safer than it was at the beginning of the Afghanistan war. Representative Mike Rogers (R., Mich.) and Senator Dianne Feinstein (D., Calif.) agreed that the risk of a terrorist attack against the U.S. is not only higher, but also more diverse.
“Al-qaeda as we knew it before is metastasizing into something different — more affiliates than we’ve ever had before” Rogers said on CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday. “All have them have at least some aspiration to commit an act of violence in the United States or against western targets all around the world.”
Feinstein warned of enhanced weapons technology among terrorist groups, including state-of-the-art bombs that go undetected and have been attempted on at least four separate occasions in the U.S.
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