CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings September 19, 2014
He could not have predicted how the terrorist threat would evolve buried at this Time Congress was completely focused on preventing another largescale attack on u. S. Soil. In 2001 we understood al qaeda to be a centralized organization no thought was even to the prospect that al qaeda would franchise terrorism and inspire satellite groups in the Arabian Peninsula and africa to bury the prospect and then attack would be carried out by a lone wolf actor with no direct training support from al qaeda and a barely into discussion. We were thinking that terrorist groups were focused on taking human...
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