sir. thank you. joining me, cnn national security commentator mike rogers. mr. chairman, respond to what you heard from general hayden. he shared my assessment, he has the expertise, you have the credentials, but the report that was issued last night to the american people was a brick shy of a load. yeah. clearly there wasn t enough information to draw any of our conclusions on the outside. but what the general pointed out and those of us who are interested in trying to find out the level of confidence in assessment by the intelligence community, you have to walk away from that thinking the cia had a high degree of confidence, the fbi had a high degree of confidence, nsa had a moderate degree of confidence, which tells me there s a lot of information that those analyst groups and they re all separate came to that conclusion that they think they re in a position to say that vladimir putin ordered it, they have an interest in at least impacting
intelligence chair and cnn national security commentator mike rogers. mr. chairman, respond to what you heard from general hayden. he shared my assessment, he has the expertise and you have the credentials, the report issued to the american people was a brick shy of a load. yeah, clearly there wasn t enough information to draw any of our conclusions on the outside. but what the general pointed out and those of us who are interested in trying to find out the level of confidence in an assessment by the intelligence community, you have to walk away from that thinking the cia had a high degree of confident, the fbi, and the nsa had a moderate degree of confidence. which tells me there is a lot of information that those analyst groups and they re all separate came to that conclusion that they think they re in a position to say that putin ordered it, they had an interest in at least impacting the election, i don t believe that they were for one
but why is this small country prone to violent extremism and frances is investigating into that. and it might narrow down who the militants might be and the background with extremism in tunisia. here is some background. tunisia is 99% sunni muslim but the government has been more than 150 muslim organizations and 2,000 young people have been arrested on charged of terrorism. that is according to the washington post. now take a look at this world map from the washington post as well. the arrows here come from all over the world and they represent the number of groups coming from worldwide to join the fighters. and this is tunisia where 3000 recruits have joined isis and going straight into syria right there. so that is according to government data provided to private analyst groups.
tunisia, right here has the highest number of recruits of 3,000, what we just heard, and all of these going right into syria. now, that data i get provided by private analyst groups. when it comes to this the washington post reports that most of these foreign fighters are under the age of 30. a little bit more perspective for you. an uprising in 2011 is partially the reason for the surge in foreign fighters. that s when long-time dictator was overthrown. in the revolution s wake government has enforced some restrictions on religions. two politicians were assassinated in february and july. the u.s. embassy and american schools were also attacked in september. now a look at the most recent report available. in 2013 it documented a marked increase in incidents fueled by violent extremism. you re looking at this image here. those are the clashes in the wake of the assassination of an opposition leader.