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No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago

No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago | Fox News

A little more than a year after President Obama confidently declared on the campaign trail that Al Qaeda was on the run, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified Wednesday that he can't say the threat from the terror network "is any less" than it was a decade ago.

Further, he said Al Qaeda probably poses an even bigger challenge today -- because its franchises are "much more globally dispersed" and the organization recently has benefited from the massive leak of U.S. intelligence information.

Clapper made the blunt statements during the annual worldwide threat hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. He described how Al Qaeda has evolved over the years, with several franchises now operating across a dozen countries.

Compounding those concerns, top intelligence officials made clear, is last year's massive leak by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden of details on American surveillance activities. Clapper said this has caused "profound damage," and terrorists are "going to school" on U.S. surveillance methods.

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I'm not surprised by this at all.

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Once you drive that scum out of one place, they relocate in another place.

Be it Mali, Nigeria, Syria or whatever islamic country is facing instability.

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Clapper?

That pathetic, lying loser. That guy should be fired.

I wouldn't believe him to tell the time.

Darrell Issa: James Clapper lied to Congress about NSA and should be fired

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Does this mean the election is over? Obama is still campaigning, so it's difficult to tell.

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What it makes me think of.

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The German said:

Once you drive that scum out of one place, they relocate in another place.

Be it Mali, Nigeria, Syria or whatever islamic country is facing instability.

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True. Kinda like trying to get a firm grip on Jello. But it really isn't any surprise. 100% pull out from Iraq, so they are left with a less than solid central government trying to combat an Al Qaeda resurgence in their country (they've lost control of a number of cities to Al Qaeda already), and from the looks of it, pretty much the same in Afghanistan.

Wouldn't be surprised if we had to do the entire exercise over again within 10 years.

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humbolt said:

Does this mean the election is over? Obama is still campaigning, so it's difficult to tell.

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Funny, I would have said the GOP is still acting like they need to keep the drumbeat up to defeat President Obama in an upcoming election. But then again the CONs have been in 'defeat the libs' mode for years now.... eace

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notquiteright said:

Funny, I would have said the GOP is still acting like they need to keep the drumbeat up to defeat President Obama in an upcoming election. But then again the CONs have been in 'defeat the libs' mode for years now.... eace

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I haven't hear any GOPers claiming the bad guys are on the run. I do agree that defeating Obama still seems to be an objective within certain ranks of the GOP, but most are now concentrating on defeating liberals and their policies. They haven't been successful of late. I have noticed that the left also continues to pursue the "defeat the right" drum beat. That's been the norm for over 200 years. I don't expect it to change anytime soon.

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DA60 said:

Clapper?

That pathetic, lying loser

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. That guy should be fired.

I wouldn't believe him to tell the time.

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Clapper ... Holder ... Sibelius ... Clinton ... Obama ............... it's a regular smörgåsbord

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American said:

Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago

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So, in the great scheme of things, no real threat at all.

One or two successful attacks on American interests in the past 15 years that collectively have killed fewer Americans than Botulism.

:roll:

I know!!!

What we REALLY need to do is to expand the Global Farce on Terror, further erode American civil liberties, further militarize American law enforcement, pump more money down the bottomless pit of "counterterrorisim", and othewise run around like a dog chasing its tail.

In the past 15 years 323 American kids have been killed in school shootings and in any given year something like 450 kids are killed through non-school-related gun violence. 88,000 Americans, in total, have been killed as a result of gun violence since 2003.

How many were killed on 9/11? 3000?

Gun violence has killed 2833% more Americans than al Qaeda.

Yet what's the solution to gun violence?

Nothing, right?

Can't prevent it.

A "War on Guns" wouldn't do anything because law abiding Americans aren't doing the killing and criminals won't respect the law and they'll get guns anyhow.

Same with the War on Drugs, and the War on Poverty, and the War on Prettymuchanyoldthing.

Well, then, WTF makes people think that a War on Terror is going to be effective?

Probably just the fact that Americans are idiots.

Look folks, terrorists are out there. They're not going to go away. No amount of money, war, law enforcement, nothing, is going to stop them.

Eventually they're going to hit us again. Hopefully it'll be smaller than 9/11 but the potential exists for it to be exponentially worse.

In the great scheme of things terrorism in general and al Qaeda in particular are a piddling concern.

Folks need to pull their heads out of their asses and stop worrying about the boogeyman.

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notquiteright said:

Funny, I would have said the GOP is still acting like they need to keep the drumbeat up to defeat President Obama in an upcoming election. But then again the CONs have been in 'defeat the libs' mode for years now.... eace

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Gee, and here I thought it was Democrats still running against GWB five years later.

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How many trillions of dollars have we spent? How many thousands of American lives have we lost? How many civilians have we wrongly killed? How many freedoms have we ceded to the government? How many nations sovereignty have we violated?

The answer to the questions above are all: Too many.

We are NO safer then we were the day after 9/11 and we will never be until we stop fueling the fire that is international terrorism.

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American said:

No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago. No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago. I'm not surprised by this at all.

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I'm not surprised the head of Intelligence says this at all. He doesn't get extra butter for his biscuits by saying all is quiet on the Western Front. Nor does he want to be stared at if and when the next attack happens. But let's look at the wording, passive at best... instead of 'is as dangerous threat' it is- 'no less a threat' than a decade ago (which after al-Queera was kicked in the nads in Afghanistan.)

Our 'intel' services have a very bad track record- from the over hype of each new Soviet threat to completely missed intel like the fall of the Berlin wall.

But bless they leedle hearts they do keep trying with a very serious face.

Biggest problem with our intel services is the need to CONtort the terrorists into our mindset. Just like the vision of a jungle Pentagon hung like Eldorado in front of MACV in SE Asia so too al-Queera has a corporate hierarchy. There are no real franchises as 'corporate' can do little more than send out the occasional video.

But we will call a few smucks waving AKs and blocks of semtex an al-Queera franchise if they holler 'Allah Akbar!' :roll:

So no wonder the separate nationalist groups embrace the title to gain status! I see it like the 60's 'Marxists' tag any revolutionary group got if they fought against the third world dictator we backed. They really didn't take orders from the Soviets and didn't embrace Soviet interests if the revolution succeeded- unless a healthy bribe was included (a lot like our dictators)

But the statement about what al-Queera was a decade ago means compared to 2003.... eace

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notquiteright said:

I'm not surprised the head of Intelligence says this at all. He doesn't get extra butter for his biscuits by saying all is quiet on the Western Front. Nor does he want to be stared at if and when the next attack happens. But let's look at the wording, passive at best... instead of 'is as dangerous threat' it is- 'no less a threat' than a decade ago (which after al-Queera was kicked in the nads in Afghanistan.)

Our 'intel' services have a very bad track record- from the over hype of each new Soviet threat to completely missed intel like the fall of the Berlin wall.

But bless they leedle hearts they do keep trying with a very serious face.

Biggest problem with our intel services is the need to CONtort the terrorists into our mindset. Just like the vision of a jungle Pentagon hung like Eldorado in front of MACV in SE Asia so too al-Queera has a corporate hierarchy. There are no real franchises as 'corporate' can do little more than send out the occasional video.

But we will call a few smucks waving AKs and blocks of semtex an al-Queera franchise if they holler 'Allah Akbar!' :roll:

So no wonder the separate nationalist groups embrace the title to gain status! I see it like the 60's 'Marxists' tag any revolutionary group got if they fought against the third world dictator we backed. They really didn't take orders from the Soviets and didn't embrace Soviet interests if the revolution succeeded- unless a healthy bribe was included (a lot like our dictators)

But the statement about what al-Queera was a decade ago means compared to 2003.... eace

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Bam! Great sentence.

"Just like the vision of a jungle Pentagon hung like Eldorado in front of MACV in SE Asia so too al-Queera has a corporate hierarchy."

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American said:

No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago

No longer on the run? Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago | Fox News


I'm not surprised by this at all.

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Nor should anyone be who is not blinded by politics and/or ideology.

The US is in bed with Al Qaeda and we use them whenever and wherever it suits our purposes .. like Libya and Syria.

Hillary Clinton wanted to set up shop in Benghazi ,, home of Al Qaeda.

Americans are an EASILY manipulated people.

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iacardsfan said:

How many trillions of dollars have we spent? How many thousands of American lives have we lost? How many civilians have we wrongly killed? How many freedoms have we ceded to the government? How many nations sovereignty have we violated?

The answer to the questions above are all: Too many.

We are NO safer then we were the day after 9/11 and we will never be until we stop fueling the fire that is international terrorism.

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The Military Industrial Complex.

Eisenhower warned us .. we didn't listen.

'Safer' was never the goal .. profit was the goal .. and they made a ****load of money in the hoax.

While Americans run around like chickens in a basket cackling at each other, the MIC and the plutocrats are making untold profits from designed and created 'terrorists' fears.

So easy.

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American said:

Intel chief Clapper says Al Qaeda no less a threat than a decade ago.

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Another way of saying, "Give my agency billions more $'s or else@!111!!!!1111111"

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poweRob said:

Another way of saying, "Give my agency billions more $'s or else@!111!!!!1111111"

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Well I think he was talking to the wrong committee for that.