By the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center , russell travers. Todays conversation has sparked institutes ongoing lecture series. Russell took office that nctc as acting director in august but its not his first, second or third time the building. Hes held many of other leadership position at nctc including Deputy Director consulate to the director acting director profits of Data Strategy innovation chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office of director of National Intelligence the National Security council the joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spent some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism and an air of competing priorities. Russell will deliver opening remarks from the podium and then we will sit down for a little fireside chat and asks the first few questions and then open it up to you to ask questions and we welcome all of you who are watching via live
Extremism and terrorism. Analysts are expected to talk about the changing Threat Landscape, the best way to combat extremism in all forms. This is live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so good afternoon, everyone. We will get started. Thank you so much for coming to new america and thanks to come in for a session which is ctrlaltdel hate, a simple study approach to preventing terrorism and targeted violence. My name is melissa salykvirk and im a senior policy analyst here with new Americas International security program. For those of you new to america we are a thinking action tank that connects the research institute, technology labs, solutions that were, media have an public forum. The International Security program aims to provide evidencebased analysis of some of the toughest security challenges facing american policymakers and the public. For homegrown american terrorism United States drone wars abroad and a drones around the world. To the pr
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Our second panel is chris brummer, Research Professor director, institute of economic law, and University Law center. Our second witnesses katerina pastore, and columbia law school. Gendler who is professor of the practice of Global Economics and manager. Mit sloan school of management Senior Advisor to the director, Mit Media Lab and codirector of. The next witness will be robert wiseman, president , public citizen, and the final witness will be chief Strategy Officers. Welcome to all of you. Without objection, your written statements will be made part of the record. Each of you will have five minutes to summarize your testimony and with one minute remaining a yellow light will appear. At that time i will ask that you wrap up your testimony so that we can be respectful of both witnesses and Committee Members times. You are recognized for five minutes to present your testimony. Thank you so much. Members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify. Im here in my academic cap