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“Our defenses against drone attacks, in my view, are nonexistent or at least lamentably behind what has emerged . . . as a salient threat,” says Bruce Hoffman, CFR counterterrorism and homeland security expert, while testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “What’s to stop any terrorist group anywhere from importing commercial drones and carrying out an attack on a major urban center? And how well is any city in the United States, much less the coordination between federal, state, and local, to deal or to handle or to counter such an attack? I’d say it’s not very encouraging.”
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“Our defenses against drone attacks, in my view, are nonexistent or at least lamentably behind what has emerged . . . as a salient threat,” says Bruce Hoffman, CFR counterterrorism and homeland security expert, while testifying before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. “What’s to stop any terrorist group anywhere from importing commercial drones and carrying out an attack on a major urban center? And how well is any city in the United States, much less the coordination between federal, state, and local, to deal or to handle or to counter such an attack? I’d say it’s not very encouraging.”
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