FOX News: CIA Dir. to Al Qaeda on 9/11: 'If I Were Them I'd Count My Days'
CIA Director Mike Pompeo issued a warning to the Al Qaeda leadership 16 years after members of the terrorist group attacked the United States on 9/11.
"If I were them, I'd count my days," Pompeo said.
He said the CIA is "working diligently" to find the current supposed leaders of the organization, Usama bin Laden's son Hamza and former Usama confidant Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Pompeo said Al Qaeda's senior leadership is weaker than it was in 2001, but that the heightened threat from radical Islam remains due to groups like ISIS and Ansar al Sharia.
"The enemy gets a choice about whether this is over, and today, they have not concluded that they're defeated," he said.
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Update #1: Pompeo on Search for Senior Al Qaeda Leaders: 'If I Were Them, I Would Count My Days' (Washington Free Beacon)
Update #2: CIA chief: Senior al-Qaeda leaders' days are numbered (The Hill)
WNU Editor: I am not sure if Al Qaeda's "days are numbered". It has been 16 years since 9/11, and they are still alive.
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Given the CIA's record of general incompetence and the general lack of competence of the other US (un)intelligence services, I would take everything these people say with either a grain of salt or reject it out right. If I am a US policy maker, nothing these people present to me is going to be accepted a face value. It is going to need additional corroboration from other sources.
US (un)intelligence has a poor track record. People with poor track records are not to be trusted unless and until such trust can be earned. Obviously POTUS cannot disband them outright and fire them all as would likely happen in a private sector enterprise. As such, he and other US policy makers are stuck with these nincompoops.
To trust Mr. Pompeo on the Al Qaeda analysis, would require corroboration from other sources. US (un)intelligence should not be relied on as a primary source. To do so would be unwise in the extreme.
As to a fallacy as to whether or not DJT likes them, when looking at the poor track records of these agencies, candidate Trump was wise to express skepticism and to generally distrust them as the track record goes beyond mere incompetence but into partisan political actions. Unless he has reformed these agencies which seems unlikely as the time involved would be enormous, he would be wise to remember his position on this as a candidate. US intelligence services may have utility as a secondary source and/or to fill information from a reliable primary source. At this time, they should never be relied on as a primary source.
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