CNN Erin Burnett OutFront May 31, 2013 03:11:00
To some degree, u.s. counterism success in thwarting plots has resulted in al qaeda deciding to embrace this lone jihadist operation. partially it's open opportunistic. it's difficult to carry out the complicated plots that they sought to do in 2005 and 2006. so for law enforcement intelligence, now you're dealing with plots that don't give off many signatures. if you're looking for one or two individuals, how are you going to detect them? unless you're in that location and that chat room, in that mosque where these individuals are getting radicalized, going to be very difficult for you to det...