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November 18, 2015       Share:    

Source: http://www.jta.org/2015/11/17/news-opinion/united-states/intel-changes-public-awareness-needed-to-prevent-paris-like-attack-in-us

Intelligence Changes, Public Awareness Needed to Prevent Paris-Like Attack in U.S.

(JTA) Ron Kampeas - The key takeaway from Friday's ISIS attacks in Paris is that the plotters managed to organize the terror wave undetected by Western intelligence, said John Cohen, who until 2014 was a top intelligence official at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. "As robust as they are, our intelligence community is not picking up on threats," said Cohen, now the senior adviser at the Rutgers University Institute for Emergency Preparedness and Homeland Security. Cohen identified an element common to both the U.S. and Europe: the radicalization of indigenous Muslims. Perpetrators of recent mass attacks in the U.S. were immigrants of long standing.

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