WSJ: Paris Attacks Show U.S., Allies Misjudged Islamic State
No longer a regional threat, ISIS demonstrates a long and deadly reach
The Paris terror attacks suggest that the U.S. and its allies overestimated recent successes against Islamic State while underestimating the group’s ability to strike far from its Middle East stronghold, according to U.S. lawmakers, analysts and former senior intelligence officials.
Islamic State now challenges Western intelligence agencies and policy makers not as a growing regional threat, but as a terrorist group with a long and deadly reach, despite a U.S.-led military campaign in Syria and Iraq.
“With an enemy that has developed a proto-state in the heart of the Middle East with such proximity to Europe and so many foreign fighters, including those from Europe, it is just really a matter of time before something like this happens even with good, or even great, intelligence,” said Hank Crumpton, a former Central Intelligence Agency official.
WNU Editor: A few hours before the Paris attacks President Obama said that ISIS was contained .... President Obama A Few Hours Before Today's Terror Attacks: ' We Have Contained ISIS'. When you say that they are contained and then this attack happens .... it does not take much to realize that maybe the intelligence the President is receiving is wrong.
More News On Speculation That Western Intelligence Agencies Failed In Stopping The Paris Attacks
French spies failed to pick up chatter about Paris attack -- The Times
Questions for French security services after it emerges three major intelligence failures may have let the killers get through -- Daily Mail
French intelligence under scrutiny in wake of Paris attacks -- The Guardian
Paris attacks: an international joint venture in violence -- Reuters
Inquiry Finds Mounting Proof of Syria Link to Paris Attacks -- NYT
Analysts blame Paris attacks on intelligence failures, not refugees -- Toronto Star
Paris attacks expose US 'failures': lawmakers -- Expatica
Paris Terror Attack: Intelligence Failure Is Not Snowden’s Fault But A Break Down Of Communication and Cooperation -- IBTimes
France's miserable intelligence failure -- Ronen Bergman, YNet News
Paris attacks show U.S. surveillance of Islamic State may be ‘going dark’ -- Yahoo News
France’s intelligence failure; Europe’s uphill battle against Islamic State -- Times of Israel
Opinion: Was this a massive intelligence failure and what lessons can we draw from Friday’s attacks? -- Greg Narton, The Courier-Mail
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