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John Solomon Reports

Former Homeland Security Special Agent: ‘US more vulnerable today’ than before 9/11

John Solomon Reports

John Solomon

News, Politics

4.76.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Eric Caron, former Special Agent for the Homeland Security and US Diplomat, expresses his concern over the threat of terrorism to the United States, saying that the US ‘ports of entry, airports, seaports’ are not secure right now and that terrorist ‘will go where they know’ security is soft, explaining that US is focused exclusively on the Southern Border but ignoring the threats posed at the ‘Northern Border’ and ‘container ships’ coming from other countries.

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0:00.0

Hello America and welcome to a new edition of John Solomon reports the podcast from

0:11.6

you know just the news.com right?

0:14.1

We've had a lot of coverage on Afghanistan today because it is such a massive foreign policy

0:19.0

failure but today we're going to take a pause and look back at how the failures in Afghanistan

0:25.6

actually fit into a larger paradigm of America taking its eye off the ball potentially being

0:32.7

vulnerable to new waves of terror attacks.

0:36.0

Everyone I'm talking to inside the law enforcement system FBI CIA counterintelligence

0:41.2

OD and I are very worried that we are in a very negative posture when it comes to vulnerabilities

0:49.7

to new terrorist attacks and there are a lot of reasons for them right?

0:54.0

In order to be more than a word in order the release of all those horrific high skilled high

0:59.6

value terrorist prisoners that were freed from Bogom airbase more conflict between our

1:06.3

agencies and less cooperation Americans just being more numb to terrorism and less attentive

1:12.1

to it all of the elements add up to a screaming red screen for some of our best intelligence

1:19.8

analysts that we are vulnerable we've heard from senators who said that General Milley the

1:25.2

chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told them we could go Sunday that Afghanistan will

1:30.0

be a breeding ground for terrorists tax a capable of reaching Americans within two years

1:35.6

less than two years.

1:37.3

We fought the war to prevent that from happening.

1:40.2

There are so many dots on the paradigm right now that should leave us worried and too much

1:46.0

the country is focused on other issues.

1:48.9

So today I want to step back and introduce you to someone who after 9-11 played an

1:55.3

instrumental role at the Homeland Security Department at Interpoled at the Treasury Department

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