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Particular, the important work done by the fbi and the department of jus the tis, they are, their record of disrupt aring these kinds of plans before they are carried out is good. and it should give the american people confidence in the capabilities that we have, and in the resources that are used to confront this threat. all right. joe? >> theres a lot of information on the record, travel from saudi to the united states, and one of these individuals from pakistan, and there is an amassing of th...

Materials tonight. what are you supposed to do? how is the government supposed to stop that if its homegrown radical anything? >> i think that that embrace that notion and understand completely that not every attack is an intelligence failure not every attack is a condemnation of the men and women who try to keep us safe. we need to september reality of the 21st century, one, america is doing everything we can to keep our streets and communities safe but that intelligence does have limits. >> yo...

They, like all of us, are trying to follow the admonition not to jump to conclusions. but you know, obviously this is something this will carefully consider. garner? >> this is off topic from what you are talking about. do you think paul ryan will have more power with his conference than john boehner did in the fall with this ominous task? >> i guess i would say that i hope so. i dont think there is anybody in this room or anyone on capital hill that relishes the prospect of a mid december or ev...

By unionization in california, law enforcement i did so well, i fear every busy body on earth looking at everybodys garage and call the cops everybody is putting together a racetrack in their garage at 2:00 in the morning getting ready for christmas. we do have to be careful because we cant infringe on civil liberty abouts. we have to realize this is huge intelligence failure. yes, that does start with the administration but we also have to take stock what happened in paris what happened here, s...

>> they were on no ones radar. >> theres thousands and thousands of people on fbi radar, but the fbi does not have the authority if theres a suspicion to knock your door down and take a look around they could never get a warrant. everybody who expresses a desire to commit violence is under surveillance of some sort and visited and even warrants. but these people were flying under the radar. its difficult for the fbi with the authorities they have to roll all these people up. this is not an intel...

>> the strategy will fail yet get. this president needs to rise to the occasion before we all get killed back here at home. >> even former top officials in the obama administration had tough words. >> its more than just an intelligence failure, its a policy failure as well. >> of course the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most, american boots on the ground. >> united states now has 3,500 military advisers in iraq helping the iraqi government take on isis. but the...

Defense agency until late last year. >> we failed to understand the enemy that we faced. >> flynn says intelligence officials warned the administration that isis was growing more dangerous before the president made his infamiliarous jc comment but the president has said the intelligence on isis was inadequate. >> here he is on 60 minutes. >> how did they end up where they are in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence commu...

Intelligence failure, its a policy failure as well. >> of course, the solution offered by most critics is the one thing isis wants the most. american boots on the ground. the united states has 3500 military advisers in iraq helping them take on isis. but the biggest underestimation was not of the strength of the self-style islamic state but of the weakness of the iraqi state. in the middle of 2014 when isis started taking town after town in iraq, the iraqi army essentially laid down its arms and...

>> how did they end up where they are in control of so much territory? was that a complete surprise to you? >> well, i think our head of the intelligence community, jim clapper, has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> you were d.i.a. at the time? >> yeah. do you think it was an intelligence failure? >> no, i dont. i really look at that and -- its easy to -- i mean, ill take one for the team, you know? the president has to decide who hes going to listen t...

Posed earlier? >> you know, its always easy to look back and say you could have been alerted to a specific threat at a specific time, the question is then, what action would that have triggered? part of what the president has brought, his approach to national security, is some degree of restraint in saying that were not going to chase every rabbit down every hole in the middle east. >> the white house did underestimate isis. and republicans seized on the issue, excoriating the president, growing...