Adam Schiff: Paris Attack Due to ‘Failure’ of Campaign Against Islamic State

STEPHANOPOULOS: "And Congressman Schiff, let me begin with you. You are on the House intelligence committee, briefed several times since the attacks on Friday. What more can you add about the intelligence on who is behind this attack and what the threat may be here at home?"
SCHIFF: "Well, this was an ISIS attack likely directed and equipped out of Syria. We have seen, George, that France, for a number of reasons, has been the primary focus of external plotting for ISIS for the past year. So there have been multiple plots. They have wanted to attack in public places like we saw, so tragically this week. And I think the reality is even the best intelligence will not stop a determined enemy that adapts to our defenses. And ISIS has adapted. The first — yeah.
STEPHANOPOULOS: "Well, you talked about this last week when we were first talking about the plane going down in Russia. You did say that you believe that ISIS has adapted and eclipsed al Qaeda clearly going global right now. What are the implications of that?"
SCHIFF: "Well, I think the implications are this is not just an intelligence failure, it’s a failure also of a coalition campaign, because we have allowed ISIS to have sanctuary in Syria and Iraq with too much time to plane and plot, too much resources to be directed against us. And unless that changes strategically, we can expect more attacks like this. We are a harder target, a harder target to reach, but we know that ISIS aspires to attack us here in the United States as well."