Is important how these lone wolfs are incubated, how they are made, much rather than how to perpetrate the act or how to play in the act. The lone wolf terrorist needs to be studied end lone wolf terrorism is hard to see your eyes, to study until the absence of case studies. Every attack is a unique and special with a different method and different ideological impact and so on. And it could be used by terrorists and known terrorists. Spike bowman, may i ask you a question about dan forsman point of view . One concern is the relevant intelligence and sharing of intelligence in terms of different agencies. How do you say this in light of recent revelation of the nsa struggling terms of the question of the Civil Liberties concerns that you worked on for so many years . Civil liberties, excuse me, Civil Liberties was always one of the biggest concerns we had at the fbi because the fbi is, unlike nsa or the Central Intelligence agency, 95 of what the nsa collected are against u. S. Persons,
From my daughter. Women faces these challenges. Women are considered too emotional to have Public Office. I dont have a problem having a tear in my eye when something affects me. In a nutshell, women are helped with very different standard than men, even in 2013. Us is not ok. This is what i have been fighting against my entire career. I know quite well what it is like to be the only woman at the table and it is difficult. I will admit i was hesitant to run for office until i decided it was time for a change. When i was first sworn into the senate in 1993, i was only the 16th woman ever elected to the 1790. Husetts senate since pretty disgusting, isnt it . [laughter] when i was elected resident of the senate in 2007, i was the first woman ever to be elected to lead a legislative body and at massachusetts. In massachusetts. [applause] today only 25 of our legislature is women and in the senate the number has only grown to 13 . This is not just a problem in massachusetts. 18 of the seats
In the extreme cases of getting involved in a land war somewhere or setting a bad example that leads people elsewhere to question your power, the assumptions of your questions are correct. I want to follow up on that. There is a perception that there is not another actor like the United States if the United States is not act, it is not clear who will act. If it looks like we are retrenching, if it looks like we establish red lines but do not act on them, that does send a message. The point you made about the increasing dependency upon energy from the gulf area and the understanding that we are the ones who have been made sure that the sea lines of communication have remained open , where does that leave us . There is a desire for us to be smart about how we use our power. There is a concern that if we begin to retrench and we appear that our dependence on our end up it is not a source of great reoccurrence reassurance to those in asia. One other point i want to throw out there, it is t