The era of fantasy-based policymaking is drawing to a close. My latest in FrontPage: Barack Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday, and the next day he told the House Select Committee on Intelligence that doing so “felt pretty good….I have 64 days left and I’d have a […]
National Intelligence Director: Islamic State exploiting migrant crisis, has training camps in Europe
This is why Clapper makes the big bucks: he doesn’t hesitate to state the blazingly obvious. And give the man credit: he has come a long way toward a realistic appraisal of the world since the days when he labeled the Muslim Brotherhood “largely secular.” “National Intelligence Director Clapper: Islamic State Exploiting Migrant Crisis In […]
Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Islamic State Attacks Russia
In FrontPage today I discuss how the Islamic State is taking the jihad against the non-Muslim world to a new level: The likelihood that the Russian Metrojet Flight 7K9268 was downed by an Islamic State (ISIS) bomb planted on board demonstrates anew that the free world’s response to the self-styled caliphate so far remains woefully […]
Director of National Intelligence: Islamic State claim to have downed Russian jet “unlikely, but I wouldn’t rule it out”
“The United States, Germany and Britain all had overflight warnings in place for Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula” — that in itself is serious indication that they think there is a strong possibility that jihadis took down the plane. “The Latest: Countries warned of dangers flying over Sinai,” Associated Press, November 2, 2015: The latest developments after […]
U.S. omits Iran and Hizballah from terror threat list
Barack Obama is still at it, relentlessly turning allies into enemies and enemies into allies. “U.S. Omits Iran and Hezbollah From Terror Threat List,” by Jack Moore, Newsweek, March 16, 2015: An annual security assessment presented to the U.S. Senate by James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, has excluded Iran and the Lebanese militant […]
180 US Muslims have joined jihad in Syria; 40 have already returned
What could possibly go wrong? “180 Americans Joined Islamic Militants in Syria, 40 Have Already Come Home,” Reuters, March 2, 2015: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – About 180 Americans have traveled to Syria to join Islamist militants and around 40 of them have returned to the United States, the U.S. National Intelligence director, James Clapper, said on […]