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President Obama's Counterterrorism Legacy

Posted: December 8th, 2016

In what many expect to be the final national security speech of his presidency, U.S. President Barack Obama reflected on U.S. counterterrorism achievements during his two terms as Commander-in-Chief, saying “We should take great pride in the progress that we’ve made over the last eight years.”

“No foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland,” the President declared at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday. “And it’s not because they didn’t try. Plots have been disrupted. Terrorists have been taken off the battlefield.”

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