The realities of increasing terrorist threats continue to face our country. In a recent bi-partisan interview featuring California Senator Dianne Feinstein (Democrat) and Michigan Representative Mike Rogers (Republican) on CNN, they revealed that the Senate Intelligence Committee has found that America is in greater danger of a terrorist attack than it was two years ago. If there’s one thing both parties in our political system can agree on, it’s that despite the death of Osama Bin Laden, continued drone strikes, and less national media attention, terrorists are gaining ground.

In the interview, Feinstein and Rogers cite a rise in terrorist-related fatalities over recent years and increasingly dangerous, specialized, and sophisticated technologies, especially when it comes to bombs.

"I see more groups; more fundamentalist, more jihadist, more determined to kill to get to where they want to get," – Dianne Feinstein (12/1/13)

Many factors have contributed to the government losing ground in its ongoing battle with global terrorism. Security leaks in national intelligence gathering policy have changed the way terrorists communicate. Drone strikes aimed at decimating al Qaeda leadership have led to a more decentralized group that is much harder to track. Increasingly, fundamentalist groups are gaining power and winning the minds of the disenfranchised in the Middle East and Near Asia. Combined with terrorists shifting their methods, America is now more susceptible to terrorist attacks than it has been in years.

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