Just a year and a half after assuring American voters that his efforts had made our citizens safer from terror attacks than before he took office, his former NSA chief is telling us the exact opposite. 

Former Director of the National Security Agency, Gen Keith Alexander, tells the New Yorker that terror attacks are on their way, it's just a matter of when. 

“We’re at greater risk. Look at the way Al Qaeda networks. From Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb, and now in Syria, the al-Nusra front. Look at the number of jihadists going into Syria and what they want to do. When put all that together, you can say those are distant countries, but a lot of these groups are looking to attack the United States. I take that threat very seriously.”

This statement flies in the face of President Obama's campaign assurances that Al Qaeda had been "decimated" and the the terror network was on the run. 

Alexander went on to tell The New Yorker that he is concerned about the number of threats our nations still faces. "The number of attacks that are coming, the probability, it’s growing,” Alexander said. “What I saw at N.S.A. is that there is a lot more coming our way.”