The official said the destroyed CIA office was engaged in counterterrorist and counterintelligence operations.
Members of the military's elite counterterrorist Delta Force unit also were involved, they said.
His counterterrorist adviser, John Brennan, is as institutional a case officer as Langley has ever produced.
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You must have specially trained personnel such as counterterrorist SEALs to defeat a determined terrorist attack.
To devise a hearts-and-minds counterterrorist policy for the Islamic world without openly talking about faith is counterproductive.
Ali Soufan, a former FBI counterterrorist agent and author of "The Black Banners, " says the movie leaves a false impression about their effectiveness.
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The Obama Administration's Department of Justice recently extended an invitation to former US attorney Andrew McCarthy to participate in a roundtable on counterterrorist policy.
Counterterrorist operations are all too often limited to the conduct of meetings with friendly liaison services, who actually run the sources and collect the information.
Last season, it rapidly took control of Bauer's troubled counterterrorist unit.
Aaron Cohen, a former member of Israel's counterterrorist special forces unit and now the director of IMS Security in Hollywood, works with numerous high-profile individuals and families, including supermodel Kate Moss.
The Obama Administration had earlier argued that the most likely conflicts confronting the nation involved counterterrorist operations at home and abroad and counterinsurgency campaigns similar to those in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Should the U.S. raids continue on Pakistani soil, there is fear that the Pakistani government may halt or at least curtail its cooperation with American counterterrorist efforts in the border area.
When parts of a classified national estimate leaked saying the Iraqi War may have helped to spawn a new generation of terrorists, the White House promptly responded by declassifying other portions of the document emphasizing the successes of counterterrorist efforts.
When the Bush administration presented a legislative package of legal tools our counterterrorist forces needed to hunt down the terror networks within the borders of the United States, many of the very groups in the White House outreach program lobbied aggressively to defeat the presidents proposed laws.
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While political strategists sought to use the groups to pander for votes, the groups themselves sought to use the access thus afforded to White House officials, Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officers and the FBI to undermine counterterrorist techniques and initiatives on the grounds that they were racially or ethnically motivated.
Counterterrorist leaders are correct to be wary of certain protest groups in the United States, since many of them are led or funded by individuals and entities loyal to state-sponsors of terrorism (North Korea, Cuba and Libya), and to designated terrorist organizations including Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Islamic Jihad.
Mr. MICHAEL EISENSTAT (Washington Institute for Near East Policy): It has to be a much larger, a much more capable force and it probably has to include light and mechanized infantry, armor, light artillery, as well as special forces who are capable of conducting a counterinsurgency and counterterrorist type operations.
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