John Brennan
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
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But if you're taking away, for example, FBI analysts and sending them down to Georgia to take a look at some of the voting issues there, it really is just taking away the capabilities that we have to prevent the attacks.
We want to stop these terrorist activities upstream, not when somebody is ready to set off a bomb, but to see them when they're starting to gain the financing and put together the capabilities to make the contacts, relationships, to start to plot and plan.
These are the things that, again, federal, state and local officials supposed to be doing.
as opposed to going after these, again, politically motivated objectives that really make this country less safe and is undermining the work that I said, you know, under President George W. Bush.
You know, I was the first director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
He made sure that the different agencies and departments had the capabilities, had the resources, but also were working together with one another.
Now it seems as though the Trump administration is taking that apart.
And unfortunately, I think it does put us at greater risk.
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