contact for u.s. attorneys. and better coordinate strategy and resources. terror and extremism do not always originate elsewhere. or take place outside our borders. homegrown violent extremists can be motivated by any viewpoint on a full spectrum of hate. while the motivation for the savage acts like the recent shooting at an oregon community college can be broad there is a common link just like isis, these hate groups use social media to pour gasoline on the fire of radical ideas, once contact is made, followers are redirected to encrypted communications, leaving fbi agents blind to their activities. social media in this space can also create for an extreme segment of our society, a sort of radicalization echo chamber. where monday than 70 islamist plots, a system that doubled the number of fbi joint terrorism task forces working with u.s. attorneys, critics question the need for another layer of bureaucracy and the desire to
or anti- government groups. terror and extremism do not always take place outside of our borders. home grown extremist can be qxd motivated boy hate. reporter: one of the common links issous of social media and redirecting recruits to encrypted sites to leave fbi blind. social media can create a radicalization echo chamber and the calls for extremist propaganda echoes others. reporter: there is questioning of another level of bureaucracy and created the national counter terrorism center. and the hub for analysis and expansion of fbi joint terrorism task forces to 56 cross the
and better coordinate strategy and resources. terror and extremism do not always originate elsewhere. or take place outside our borders. homegrown violent extremists can be motivated by any viewpoint on a full spectrum of hate. while the motivation for the savage acts like the recent shooting at an oregon community college can be broad there is a common link just like isis, these hate groups use social media to pour gasoline on the fire of radical ideas, once contact is made, followers are redirected to encrypted communications, leaving fbi agents blind to their activities. social media in this space can also create for an extreme segment of our society, a sort of radicalization echo chamber. where monday than 70 islamist plots, a system that doubled the number of fbi joint terrorism task forces working with u.s. attorneys, critics question the need for another layer of bureaucracy and the desire to lump the threats together.
war at sorts at times or looks like a civil war and then is it the responsibility of the u.s. government to inform another foreign government that hey, someone you don t like is is travels overseas, oh, by the way, a person you thought deserved political asylum. how much of this is hindsight versus what should be what the intelligence community should be focused on? correct. and you know, worked with the fbi joint terrorism task forces, i would like to give them the benefit of the doubt. the communique knowing that the russians hate the chechens. but it still doesn t answer the question about what he was doing there. there have been reports he was potentially meet wg these underground groups as the russians did warn and so again, my point is that they are just now going overseas to investigate and interview witnesses. just now looking at his computer
the procedure? a lot of times when you have these big events, whether it s a parade, typically authorities will say no backpacks or limit the size. and even glance into purses of women going into these secured areas at these large events. do we know if that s the case at the boston marathon? i don t know specifically, but i would say two things. first, the boston police department is really one of the elite in general. and related to terrorism. they ve been very involved since 9/11 in creating specialized intelligence units and the like and working hand in hand with the fbi joint terrorism task forces. they plan these out withiculous. the second piece is you generally have different levels of security as you get closer and closer to the event. usually the finish line, themselves, there might be inspections of the backpacks and like. as you move out, there are different levels of police, both federal officers and largely