- Thu Feb 26, 2015 12:10 pm
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The top U.S. intelligence official on Thursday gave a drastically different assessment than Secretary of State John Kerry of the terror threat -- declaring 2014 the deadliest year for global terrorism ever recorded, after Kerry claimed that threat was diminishing.That took some balls to call the Obama Administration a liar, he came out quickly to clarify Kerry and others in the Obama Administration are dead wrong when they claim the world is safer. Got to love it!
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, testifying on Capitol Hill, catalogued the growing terror-fueled violence in stark terms.
"When the final accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the 45 years such data has been compiled," Clapper told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
He offered statistics that would appear to challenge other administration officials' claims that the country and world are safer today.
A day earlier, Kerry testified at a separate hearing that, "Despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less threats to the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century. The world has never been safer from terrorist threats. "
