terrorists and insurgents will increasingly turn to crime and criminal networks for funding and logistics . . . Criminal connections and activities of Hezbollah and al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb illustrate this trend.
Clapper warns about the link between terrorism and organized crime.
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I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.
It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.
It's despicable. You know, I am out adjectives, but it's just, it's terrible.
This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves using about revelations of abuse of power by the Trump administration.
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