Of legal authorities are important. And theand the importance of maintaining Civil Liberties of our citizens generally is why we recommend the fbi director have a special Advisory Panel available are continuing basis. These are some of the things we found some of the things we recommend as far as the future is concerned. The United States is likely to have an organization like the fbi that not only has a great history but the ability to accept change. It has not been easy. There have been tough moments to get the idea of intelligence and degraded along with Law Enforcement into the work of the fbi. It has been difficult but they have made remarkable progress up until now. The knew director is behind the recommendations we have made. There is a Bright Future for the fbi, but it is important that there be one because the future of the fbi we will be the way in which this country is protected against terrorism. Imare going to touch on three key areas with three tracks that i think are sig
Is one of the tests that the fbi utilizes. One other thing most of the people have been radicalized and guarded to violent extremists has certain characteristics. The same type as people who join gangs. Low selfesteem, unemployed categories such as this. A gives you some indication of the kinds of people they usually get involved. There are different statistics on that. That maythat may be more true to those who are going of foreign fighter out and less true or al qaeda type operators. Educated and you have seen across the board a high incidence of the down and hours. Not to say that there are not pockets. There are two aspects to the foreign fighter problem. There going to come back in the terrorists it is true. What is even more vital is the fact that they are recruiting going over the. It is like voting on american idol. It allows the claim that this is a caliphate. Showing the pipeline down over and apart from the physical threat is an important part of diminishing the brand. Yes,
You know, i think we can all agree that trying to monitor cyber space is futile, lawfully or unlaw fly. Given that this is a war of ideology, is there any plan on the table for policy to try to exploit that ideology in that seems to be what the crux of this is. Recruits will be replenished as long as they can be reached out to, so, do we have a way to counter this ideology, understand it, use it against them . Its a great question. Again, i think when i go to my what i was proposing in terms of a ground force, its got to be under American Leadership with our guys imbedded, but its time for the sunni arab nations to provide that ground force. They tell me they will, if there was a strategy. I met with world leaders. They will do that if theres a strategy and assad is part of the equation. When the infidel sets foot, you know, the last resort, either we try to do this or we do 100,000 u. S. Combat troops. You know, thats kind of the choices that we have. That is an option that should be
Agents and analysts and what other agencies were doing so they could Work Together with the people in those particular agencies. And it also involved creating new career paths, upward mobility, promotion opportunities and so on so we could retain the intelligence analysts along with the special agents. Another change that came about was to expand the role of the legal attache. Its a phrase that depicts the fbi people working overseas in our various embassies. They have a unique role. While the cia is viewed and in Foreign Countries as a spy agency, but the fbi had the ability to work with the local Law Enforcement. Either the National Law Enforcement people or local Law Enforcement people, particularly in the large cities overseas. In many ways, they are the tip of the spear in terms of our discovery potential terrorist plots and potential situations and information about terrorist organizations and the like. So they have a new very vital role in the counterterrorism effort. And part o
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