Isil using lone wolf attackers in Europe as smoke screen for larger plots, judge warns

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Isil is flooding Europe with low-level, unsophisticated attack plans to swamp intelligence agencies while larger atrocities are secretly plotted, a senior counter-terrorism judge has warned.

 

The terror group has had Europe in its sights for up to four years, it is feared, and sent dozens of jihadists back to carry out lone-wolf attacks.

 

“It served to put all of our agencies on edge. Just like a smoke screen, it allowed them to calmly prepare,” said Marc Trevidic, who retired as France’s chief counter-terrorism judge last year.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/terrorism-in-the-uk/12206550/Isil-using-lone-wolf-attackers-in-Europe-as-smoke-screen-for-larger-plots-judge-warns.html

 

 

Intelligence agencies pounce on Paris attacks to pursue spy agenda

 Read Brennan’s comments carefully because they are very revealing. When he says “legal actions”, he’s referring to the fact that multiple federal courts have ruled that the government’s secret mass surveillance on millions of Americans is illegal. So it sounds like the CIA director is saying it’s a shame that intelligence agencies can’t operate completely above the law any more, and is scapegoating any failings on his agency’s part on accountability that is the hallmark of any democracy. (Though he still can apparently operate above the law.)

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/17/intelligence-agencies-pounce-paris-attacks-pursue-spy-agenda

INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES POUNCE ON PARIS ATTACKS TO PURSUE SPY AGENDA

Absent any actual information or evidence so far about intelligence failures leading up to the deplorable terrorist attack in Paris, pundits spent the weekend speculating that Edward Snowden and surveillance reform were to blame for the fact that the attack went undetected. Then on Monday, in an epic episode of blame shifting, the CIA director, John Brennan, reportedly said privacy advocates have undermined the ability of spies to monitor terrorists. He explained:

Intelligence Agencies Pounce on Paris Attacks to Pursue Spy Agenda