Lawmakers Warn Americans Are No Safer Today

“Americans shouldn’t feel safer today than they did before the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the leaders of the Senate and House intelligence committees said Sunday,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The country now faces a larger number of threats from splintered terrorist groups and more complex weapons than when the U.S. began combat operations in Afghanistan in 2001… At the same time, the nation’s spy programs-which can help foil terrorist plots-are under heavy scrutiny that could ultimately lessen their effectiveness.”