Clinton Urges Social-Media Intelligence Sharing in Terror Fight
Clinton, though, declined to say the United States is engaged in a “war” with ISIS.
“I have to believe that the best minds in the private sector, in the public sector could come together to help us deal with this evolving threat”, she said on ABC.
When pressed further, Clinton continued: “Well, war is a very legal term as you know so well”.
In a reference to Silicon Valley’s reverence for disruptive technologies, Clinton said, “We need to put the great disrupters at work at disrupting ISIS”, an acronym for the militant group.
“Well, the problem is that that sounds like we are declaring war against a religion”, the former secretary of state said.
“What happened in San Bernardino was a terrorist attack”.
With Stephanopoulos she noted that from ‘where I sit right now, I think it would make things worse not better, ‘ to put American combat troops on the ground, but she wanted the United States to help Arab and Kurdish fighters in the battle against ISIS.
As Clinton has in the past, she also called for comprehensive background checks for potential gun buyers.
“We’re not winning, but it’s too soon to say that we are doing everything we need to do”, Clinton said Sunday when asked if the United States is winning the fight against ISIS. And number three, do whatever is necessary to protect us here at home.
“They’re going to have to help us take down these announcements and these appeals”, Clinton added. “They can not permit the recruitment and the actual direction of attacks or the celebration of violence by this sophisticated Internet user”, Clinton said.
“This is the kind of deplorable, not only hateful response to a legitimate security issue but it is giving aid and comfort to ISIS and other radical jihadists”, Clinton said. “We will carpet bomb them into oblivion”.
“The NRA’s position always is that if you can’t stop everything, why try to stop anything”, Mrs. Clinton said, referring to the National Rifle Association.
The Florida senator said that when the federal government reviewed its watch lists over the past 10 years, it found no evidence that any of the 2,000 people on the lists who had bought firearms had committed a crime with a gun.
“Call it for what it is, the idea that this is not radical Islamic terrorism or that there or that somehow there are Buddhist, radical Buddhists, radical Christians”, Bush told ABC. ‘And the vast majority [of Muslims] are on our side unless we drive them away’.
“Oh, the military option… thank you Justice Breyer, he’s a careful listener”, Clinton said, reiterating that she meant a military option to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. We will utterly destroy them.