The ongoing lecture series. Russell took office as acting director in august, but its not his first, second or third time in the building. Hes held many other leadership positions including counselor to the director, chief data officer. Hes held positions at the Defense Intelligence agencies, the National Security council, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff. So were thrilled that hes been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spend some time with us today to talk about Counter Terrorism in an era of competing priorities. Russell will deliver some opening remarks from the podium and then well sit down for a little fireside chat. Ill ask the first few questions and then i will open it up to all of you who are here to ask some questions and we welcome all of you who are watching via livestream or via cspan, thank you for joining us today. Russell, the podium is yours. So, thanks very much, matt. Its a great pleasure to be here to talk about Counter Terrorism in an era of comp
Newshour, meeting with senator mark warner, who needs no introduction, chairman of the Senate Committee on intelligence. Ill be presiding over this discussion. Kenneth a moscow lecture. This is an annual lectureship that honors the memory of kenneth a. Moscow, longtime member of the council with a distinguished career in the Intelligence Community. Further details on his life and many professional accomplishments can be found in the booklet that you have at your seat. I do want to extend a special welcome to the members and guests of the moscow family who are here with us today, seated at the center table. Welcome to you. So, without further ado, ill just say i will invite senator warner. He will speak for about ten minutes, then ill have the opportunity to ask him questions for about 20 minutes and then at 1 00, we will open it up for questions for members. Without further ado, senator mark warner. Thank you for that introduction, judy. Looking forward to our discussion. That is, abou
Welcome. If you quick housekeeping notes note. You could silence your cell phones now so we dont get interrupted it would be great but usually we have about 30 minutes of talking and then we take questions. We are filming so it important and i hope you all have questioned that use the microphone and get up and ask them as opposed to shouting from the audience. If you would think of questions from there and asked them that would be great. Those of you who are familiar with our offense would ask you to pull that the chairs, dont fold up the chairs today. Thank you. If you enjoy this event we do 500 operatives a year so check out the events calendar. We have november and december out a lot of good stuff. If you havent been down there its beautiful. We have events there and its a great space. Now for the good stuff. Im excited to introduce kimberly mehlmanorozco. Kimberly holds a doctorate in criminology law from George Mason University with an expertise in Human Trafficking. Shes one of t
Im David Shuster in for ali threat. We take a deep dive into the darkest corners of the web where no one knows your name and anything i dont say. The trade. The hacking last week of ashley madison, a website that helps married people cheat on their spouses sparked a hand ringing of jokes. You cant help but see the irony of a website. 2 billion credit, debit and prepaid cards. The nielsen reports says it cost the United States 6. 2 billion in 2014. Once they steal your credit card or number or worse for Social Security number hackers pose an invisible threat to privacy and turns to something called the dark web or deep web. A world most of us have not entered. Mary snow took a tour. Welcome to the underground chat room on the web. Not only do have you a persons name, date of birth, you have the email addresses, their passwords, their ip address. Their facebook. Credit card, bank account. You could take over their financial life. How much is that worth. In this case 8. For all that infor
Entrepreneurs transform the global economy. Heres the cover the book. Professor, what role does fear play in Economic Development . Guest well, thats a great question, and maybe ill talk about what role does fear play in our conversations about development, conversation about our presence so when we talk about our reality and share our ideas in a marketplacek competing with other ideas, and we know three things about marketplaces for ideas. Short term sells better than long term. Fear sells better than hope. Negative sells better than positive that is to say, and exaggerated sells better than moderated. We see a disproportioned number of short term narratives of negative e exaggerated stories essentially. Short term, negative, exage exaggerated. Were cree chars that grew up in environments where we were always subject to threats. Were no longer in those environments. Were in a complex economy thats interdependent, that that really relies on organizations to provide us with our necessit