In a pair of public appearances this week, CIA Director John O. Brennan made clear that he blames leaks by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden for enabling terrorists to evade detection.

“Because of a number of unauthorized disclosures, and a lot of hand-wringing over the government’s role in the effort to try to uncover these terrorists,” Brennan said, the CIA and other agencies have lost the use of critical tools needed “to find these terrorists.”

Read the article “Did the Snowden Leaks Allow the Paris Terrorists to Go Undetected?” on washingtonpost.com.