CIA Director John Brennan warned on Friday against giving "Islamic legitimacy" to ISIS militants, CBS News reports.
"They are terrorists, they're criminals," Brennan said during an interview at the Council on Foreign Relations. "Most — many — of them are psychopathic thugs, murderers who use a religious concept and masquerade and mask themselves in that religious construct…It is totally inconsistent with what the overwhelming majority of Muslims (believe) throughout the world."
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