The DailyBeast’s Eli Lake reports on the quiet battle raging within the Obama administration over the future of the War on Terror. Lake reports that after President Obama concluded in 2012 that al Qaeda no longer posed a direct threat to the United States, his administration officials made moves to scale back the fight against terror groups, but only over the opposition of long-time intelligence officials. 

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