Trillions Later - Intel Committee chairs: America ‘not safer’ today

[Jesus Malverde]

America is not safer now than it was a few years ago, according to the House and Senate Intelligence Committee chairs.

Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-CA said there was “huge malevolence” against the United States, and warned that the terrorism threat against the country is on the rise. “I think terror is up worldwide,” she said. “The numbers are way up.”

The U.S. has spent billions of dollars to expand its global intelligence and counterterrorism programs and has run a targeted killing program aimed at alleged terrorist leaders. That program has been criticized for causing too much collateral damage and stoking anti-American sentiments.

House chair Mike Rogers, R-MI, agreed with Feinstein, saying the “pressure on our intelligence services to prevent an attack is incredible.”

http://www.msnbc.com/melissa-harris-perry/top-lawmakers-warn-america-not-safer-today

Going into our 14 year of war, some assessment.

[RKP5637]

1. In essence, 5% of the worlds' population is finding it difficult to police the other 95%. One can

look at the US war on drugs, the millions and millions poured into that fiasco. Often brute force is not the smart approach. ... but that approach spans eons of how humans handle conflict, and we are still doing the same. ... in essence, humanity is very immature and very slow to correct ...

[TheKentuckian]

2. Only in a complicit media would there fail to be questions about failed methodology and

wasted resources in pursuit of failure.