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thinking about it that did lead to a lot of other extreme, horrific crimes. yeah. i want to focus on qanon, because that is certainly front and center these days. you have written about it this month. you say it is trying to infiltrate local schools and governments. how are qanon folks trying to do that? what s the best way to combat this? i mean let s get ahead of this if we can. exactly. this is the perfect moment not to make the same mistakes from the past and look at the threats that are amerging. the conspiracy theory types of movements have grown tremendously particularly during the pandemic conditions. one of the thing we are seeing now with conspiracy theorists like qanon is they are pursuing entryism trying to get candidates into elected office as sheriffs or local office, often on republican platforms. and we see that with school board elections. they tend to be a place where people will run for election and
reaction. the decision not to release the death photos of bin laden, what is your thought on that? well, i would have preferred had their been released because there s always going to be those who doubt it. the conspiracy theory types who say that this is proof that we really didn t get him but i m not going to criticize the president. he has access to intelligence that we don t and he claimed that that was part of the reason for his decision so he made the right decision in getting bin laden and i m not going to criticize his decision here. although i think it would have been some comfort to a number of us just to be able to see that visual, that visual proof that this mass murderer has finally been killed. i have no doubts he has been but there will be those around the world who do. two key leaders on 9/11, thank you very much for your thoughts today. thanks. thank you, richard.