Saturday, February 7, 2009

Veteran Terrorist Hunters Say US Vulnerable to Attack

From Homeland Security Today:

'The intelligence from my perspective is pretty clear in so far as what Al Qaeda’s intentions are'

When former Vice President Dick Cheney earlier this week said there’s a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack and implied that Obama administration policies have weakened the Intelligence Community to the extent that it might now be impossible to detect such an attack, it made a lot of observers wince on the left and right.

Veteran US counterterror officials HSToday.us spoke to said while intelligence capabilities under the Obama administration aren’t currently likely to be as deficient or as policy-unwise as Cheney implied, there certainly are crisis-level vulnerabilities on the home-front that Al Qaeda or other terrorist organizations bent on seriously doing damage to the United States could strike at which could deliver a devastating blow during the next 12 to 24 months while the government attempts to rescue the nation from its weakened economy.

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