In favor of brexit. That was like a tectonic shift and it was a major change with consequences that were both farreaching and unclear. Brexit changes everything, but how . So businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever sense and rands study that we are talking about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean or our Economic Policy and for our operation so im excited to see many friends of the Wilson Center here today and that rand. Im going to introduce our panel and my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the bulkof this study. Turn this over to then michelle for some comments and then have fran and howard way in. Who are these people, you may ask . Charlie reese, Vice President international at rand, former Us Ambassador degrees and with a distinguished state Department Career including hosting the secretary for europe. Mister council for Economic Affairs in london and the European Union. In iraq he served as coordinator for economic
Including postings in europe, and from 2007 to 2008. At the rand corporation, Robin Quinville is a distinguished fellow at the council and the senior advisor, and served as Vice President for European Union and special edition at the council. Howard howard shatz is the director of rand, initiated research, and the party Rand Graduate School specialized in economics and national security. And so many varied studies im hardpressed to find something he had. Michelle egan is our nonrand expert, one of our own at the Wilson Center, fellow in global europe program, professor at American University school of International Service and coordinates european and russian studies program. With that, you are waiting, i will turn it over to charlie. Thank you very much. Robin didnt introduce herself but i will mention she is just back from top political jobs at the us embassy in london and in berlin, and knows quite a bit about this herself and hope she will intervene in the discussion period. I woul
The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. Yet when the ic and dod do not integrate effectively, we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. Were here today because the dod and ic have failed to adequately respond to the concer
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With territory it controls in syria. American special force he are helping the Iraqi Government and cusht kurdish informs rolling i. S. I. L. Back. And syrian troops are fighting both i. S. I. L. And the u. S. Backed rebels. Either way, i. S. I. L. Is on the defensive now in both syria and iraq butter the group is very much on the offensive everywhere else. The i. S. I. L. Ideology is morphed into a franchise thats being taken up by the likes of boko haram in nigeria and grille la guerilla groups. The same story in libya. The new local i. S. I. L. Franchise announced itself last year when it murder twuf 21 egyptian christians in front of cameras. But as i. S. I. L. i. S. I. L. s fore started to turn, regrouping, in february, i. S. I. L. Launched strikes against a border in tunisia, the base was hit, 49 people died in the raid and six were wounded. The defense secretary, u. S. Secretary Ashton Carter says u. S. Needs to confront i. S. I. L. Everywhere. He said we are going to protect ou