Daily Beast: CIA Directors on ISIS After Paris: ‘They’ll Come Here’
Current and former CIA directors and analysts weigh in on ISIS and the terrorist attacks in Paris. They’re featured in the new documentary The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs, airing Nov. 28 at 9 p.m. on Showtime.
The macabre videotape from ISIS came barely a week after the bloody carnage in Paris: “We bring [President François] Hollande and the people around him good tidings—as we bring [President] Obama good tidings…. Allah willing, we shall roast them with explosive belts and car bombs.”
At the CIA, no one is under any illusion that the threat of more ISIS attacks on Europe—or even U.S. soil—is just bluster. Cofer Black, former head of the agency’s Counterterrorism Center, says of the Paris assault: “An out-of-the-blue attack with so many moving parts is bad news for us.” “I’ve come to the view when dealing with bad guys, that you should believe what they say,” John McLaughlin, a longtime former deputy director, told me recently. “Most of them are going to try and do what they tell you they’re going to do. The ISIS objective is to consolidate their so-called caliphate. But unless they are stamped out, they’ll come here. They'll come here. To say we’re not in their gun sights reminds me of pre-9/11, where the C.I.A. encountered what I would call a climate of disbelief.”
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