Remarks And Comments From CIA Director John Brennan On the Islamic State At The Council On Foreign Relations

Time: CIA Director Says ISIS Not Islamic, But ‘Psychopathic’



"We need to expose just how murderous and psychopathic these individuals are"


CIA Director John Brennan has defended the White House’s efforts to avoid using the word “Islamic” to describe extremist terror groups like the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS).


At a question and answer session at the Center for Foreign Relations in New York City on Friday, Brennan said using “Islamic” or “Muslim” to describe ISIS militants gives them “the type of Islamic legitimacy that they are so desperately seeking, but which they don’t deserve at all.”

Remarks And Comments From CIA Director John Brennan On the Islamic State At The Council On Foreign Relations

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