their remaining operatives spend more time thinking about their own safety than plotting against us. they did not direct the attacks in benghazi or boston and that means we'll face more localized threats like what we saw in benghazi or the b.p. oil facility in nigeria in which local operatives, perhaps in loose affiliation with networks, made periodic attacks against diplomats, companies and other soft targets or resort to kidnapping and other criminal activities to fund their enterprises. that's the current threat. lethal, yet less capable al qaeda affiliates, threats to diplomatic facilities and businesses abroad, homegrown extremists. this is the future of terrorism. jenna: that was the president in may saying the core of al qaeda was crumbling and less than two months later, unprecedented closing of our embassies across