US spy chiefs expect continuing problems in Libya, Ukraine
US spy agencies expect continuing upheaval in Libya and Ukraine, top intelligence officials told Congress on Thursday.
James Clapper, the US Director of National Intelligence, told a House of Representatives Intelligence Committee hearing that the United States had "great hope" that a new government of national accord will soon be formed in Libya.
But at the same hearing, CIA chief John Brennan acknowledged that the United States in practice was pursuing a two-track policy in Libya, in which it was engaged both in a diplomatic effort to knit together two competing, regionally based self-proclaimed Libyan governments while also conducting "counterterrorism" operations against a growing contingent of Islamic State militants.
