Clinton: After Brussels Attack Government Needs to Take a “Harder Look” at Encryption

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Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told an audience at Stanford University in California on Wednesday the US government needs to a form a bipartisan commission to look at airport security and encryption.

She said the Brussels attack that killed more than 30 people is the “latest brutal reminder” that more must be done to defeat Islamic State militants.

So far it has not been determined if the suspected terrorists in Brussels used encrypted devices to plan or communicate during the attacks.

“We do not know yet what role, if any, encrypted communications played in these attacks,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) said in a statement. “But we can be sure that terrorists will continue to use what they perceive to be the most secure means to plot their attacks,”

In December during a debate with rival Bernie Sanders Clintoncharacterized encryption as a “terrorist tool used in the Paris attacks.” She said the US should launch a “Manhattan-like project” to “bring the government and tech communities together” so that law enforcement can “prevent attacks.”

In February House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas, and Democratic Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia introduced a bill calling for a committee to examine encryption. Warner said the committee will be based on the 9/11 commission.