CNN: Political winds shifting on surveillance after Paris attacks?
The intelligence community -- on defense since revelations of massive domestic surveillance surfaced in 2013 -- might have an opening to become more assertive after the terror attacks in Paris.
Intelligence officials are already pressing their case in the aftermath of the France bloodshed -- and getting support from prominent politicians who only recently avoided bringing up the controversial topic in conversations about national security.
The shift is alarming privacy activists and threatens to deny some presidential candidates an issue that has served as a major rallying cry for their campaigns: imposing limits on government spying programs in the wake of former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden's leaks.
CIA Director John Brennan on Monday called the Paris attacks a "wake-up call" on the importance of intelligence collection, decrying reforms as obstacles to his job.
Brennan said at the Center for Strategic and International Studies' Global Security Forum that due to "unauthorized disclosures" and "handwringing," some policy and legal steps have been taken "that make our ability collectively, internationally, to find these terrorists much more challenging."
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http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/20/politics/paris-syria-isis-surveillance-intelligence-politics/index.html
Well, this was predictable.
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