Good afternoon, everyone. My name is bill burps. Im delighted to welcome you to the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and im especially delighted to welcome home to carnegie Nick Rasmussen, the director of the National Counterterrorism center. As nick completes three years as director of nctc and nearly 30 years of Government Service, were very fortunate and very honored that hes chosen to offer a few parting thoughts at the place where his professional journey began, at carnegie, where he served as an intern in the Junior Fellows Program after graduating from wesleyan. Ive known and admired nick since the 1990s when we served together in the state department when nick worked for dennis ross in the special middle east coordinators office. Nick went on to serve as one of the very few senior u. S. Government officials to serve virtually continuously since 9 11 in fighting terrorism around the world first at the white house and then at nctc. We are, over the last three years, he
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