A handful of threats hang over the collective heads of Americans trying to recover from the recession–threats that each have the potential to block the road to prosperity, an intelligence expert said here.
General Michael Hayden, retired director of the Central Intelligence Agency, speaking at the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America meeting here, outlined five possible roadblocks to economic recovery: Iran, China, cyberspace, Mexico and terrorism.
Large-scale attempts at terrorism have been thwarted by intelligence, but less-complex ones are likely to succeed, said the general, who is also former director of the National Security Administration and deputy director of National Intelligence. Those plans, he added, will be "less lethal but more numerous."
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