Is that really something we want the Director of the C.I.A. to admit?

IA Director John Brennan participates in the Senate Intelligence Committee’s hearing on worldwide threats on Capitol Hill in Washington on Feb. 9, 2016. (Associated Press) **FILE**

Kellan Howell reports at the Washington Times,

The head of the CIA says American spies knew the Islamic State terror group was plotting an attack days before militants slaughtered 130 people in Paris last year.

CIA director John Brennan told CBS’s “60 Minutes” that the “system was blinking red” shortly before the terrorists launched a string of gun and bomb attacks in the French capital on Nov. 13.

He said the CIA was aware of the impending attacks, but was unable to intercept messages the terrorists were using to plot the massacre because of new cellphone-encryption technology.

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