Manhunt. Reports say the two brothers were seen at a small town. Therell be a lot of questions. [ chants ]. Calls for the defense of freedom of expression. Free speech in the u. S. Is not absolute. Divide over freedom of expression, and what constitutes legitimate debate. What are the lords of secrecy . The people with the power to create secrets under american law. The government has too many unnecessary secrets. They use the power to enhance their own position. As new numbers show the rises pocket expenses. The costs are crippling the middle class. Have you made a decision recording the 2016 raise. I will not run for the senate in 2016 we begin with a massive manhunt in france. Authorities narrowed the search to northern france after the two brothers believed responsible for the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo robbed a gas station 50 miles north of france on thursday before fleeing again, reportedly on foot into a wooded area. One of the brothers 34yearold said kouachi received terrori
Were seen at a small town. Therell be a lot of questions. Calls for the defense of freedom of expression. Free speech in the u. S. Is not absolute. Divide over freedom of expression, and what constitutes legitimate debate. What are the lords of secrecy . The people with the power to create secrets under american law. The government has too many unnecessary secrets. They use the power to enhance their own position. As new numbers show the rises pocket expenses. The costs are crippling the middle class. Have you made a decision recording the 2016 raise. I will not run for the senate in 2016 we begin with a massive manhunt in france. Authorities narrowed the search to northern france after the two brothers believed responsible for the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo robbed a gas station 50 miles north of france on thursday, before fleeing again, reportedly on foot, into a wooded area. One of the brothers, 34yearold said kouachi received terrorist training from al qaeda in yemen. His 32yearo
Of an organization that is how many have grown out of that though. Every time you kill one, you get 10 or 20 more to join the cause. So are we winning . And it has helped the iraqi forces, the partners and kurds Iraqi Security forces retake key strategic areas. In five months, i think there is limbed and preliminary but significant evidence that this combination of limited u. S. Force and partners is working. I appreciate your time. Im out of time. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I thank the member from florida. Well we appreciate the time of all of our witnesses here today. This was a start of a very important conversation so i think as we deal with this, deal with this growing threat from isis and as we deal with the president s request we thank you again. Were going to be submitting some additional questions to our panel. Appreciate your response and we stand adjourned. A reminder that if you missed any of todays hearing you can watch at anytime in our video library. Just go to cspan. Org.
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are going to get the hearing started. I want to welcome director Nick Rasmussen from the National Counterterrorism center. Nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. I think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the American People with an update on the current threat from terrorism. The committee remains concerned about the expanding evolving nature of this threat than the challenges facing the Intelligence Community and the evolving nature of the threat. This is the first of what i hope will be a number of open hearings that should give the Intelligence Community an opportunity to better inform the public of its current efforts and challenges. As mr. Rasmussen and i have talked about here is what we do. More importantly here is why the American People
Traveled to syria or attempted to travel there and who will return home. At least 3400 of them are from western europe. And that includes visa waiver countries, where theyre a plane ticket away from the United States. What we dont know is how many people are inside the United States following isil, and who are becoming inspired to carry out their own attacks. Separately al qaeda remains focused on conducting attacks against or homeland while aq in the ungoverned areas of pakistan may bes weak as it has been in many years, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, or aqap still poses a clear threat. The group is enjoying a safe haven in yemen, with the huiti the group has already attempted to sense nonmetallic and essentially undetectible bombs into our country on four occasions, beginning with the Christmas Day 2009 bomb. Aq has published stepbystep directions for building that bomb in the latest inspire magazine. Our efforts to confront aqap are significantly diminished with the removal of t