sayyaf. gain any intel they had about al-baghdadi and isis leadership. but this mission obviously turned into a kill mission after we know that abu sayaff fired on those u.s. forces. sunlen serfaty, thank you so much keep us posted especially if the president does comment on it this weekend. joining me now via skype, cnn military analyst, retired major general james spider marks. good to see you. let s talk more about this. so abu sayaff not the name that people have come to know. but why in your view is it important that these special opes would target operational leaders? he presumably being one of them? was more than an operational leader. we would probably characterize him, the united states the intelligence community, would characterize him as the cfo of size is. he was the one responsible for all the oil and gas revenue. which is clearly the primary source of their ability to conduct operations. so the fact that the united
this concern about individuals within the united states increasingly resonated, if you will with the ideology of isil and the idea of just acting violently indiscriminately is clearly of great concern. it s a trend that things would suggest is increasing not decreasing. reporter: there s one key issue about isis that necessarily you don t have to have these attackers speaking to isis leadership. they can simply be inspired and act independently, the lone wolf if you like. i should point out that mike rongers is talking in a climate in which the nsa will be looking to renew its broad surveillance powers simply in the weeks ahead. that may be feeding into some of the sense of urgency in his comments and also too he spoke on a day in which we often see another video emerged online in which isis supporters claim they have plenty of hacking attacks ready to jeopardize the u.s. a climate of concern building
communication at all. this is the key concern, christine. you are talking about an ideology which is attractive to people who may have never met isis leadership. in the past you have a chain of command or you could investigator look for and surveillance. in this case you may not get that. you may have a lone wolf who sees something online and learns what he has to do on the internet and plots the attack. then afterwards isis says they are connected. one piece of information, christine, the head of the nsa embattled after the revelations of edward snowden and privacy. he will talk about the weeks ahead of trying to renew the powers that the nsa has for surveillance and you may want to view the comments on the threat of isis as he sees it within the light of the nsa and also trying to preserve the ability to do what they say to protect the national security. nick looking at all of the
and what we understood from intelligence officials this evening, is that they have looked at this threat, they don t believe it comes from isis leadership. someone who likes to associate with isis, but they are not fully discounting it either. is the isis connection at this point isis cheerleading and saying raw raw raw look what we did or is there evidence they were directing it and doing some command and control? based on our reporting and this social media traffic that shows that there was contact between at least one of the shooters in garland, texas and isis accounts in syria and also somalia, these accounts seem to have foreknowledge of what was to happen and also spoke about a personal contact between them. it s a very fine line between inspiration and directing an attack, but i would argue this is the new face of what terrorism looks like. it s not al find where there is direct command and control. they provide the mentoring and the encowrmt and these
back down to that developing news of the shooting at a texas event featuring caricatures of the prophet mohammed. happened sunday night, today, 200 people gathered in the city of peshawar, pakistan, offering an absentia funeral for the gunman who carried out the attack, elton simpson and nadir soofi called marters by the cleric, saying the two martyr proved their love and loyalty with islam. isis is claiming responsibility to this attack but not provided any evidence to support it and not known whether isis leadership was involved or behind the attack. joining me now is garland, texas, may. good to have you here. your police department appeared prepared for this event, even asking the group that sponsored the event to pay $10,000 for the 40 extra security guards that they had there. so, did you anticipate something like this happening? did your office or police department have any information