[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everybody. Welcome to the Washington Institute for near east policy. I have the pleasure of directing the institutes reinhardt program on counterterrorism and intelligence and im very, very please to be joined here today by the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center, Russell Travers. Todays conversation is part of the institutes ongoing counterterrorism lecture series. Russell took office at nctc as acting director in august, but its not his first, second or third time in the building. He felt many other leadership positions within nctc including Deputy Director counsel to the director, acting director to the office of datacomm strategy and innovation, chief data officer, among others picky suppositions at the office of the director of national intelligence, the Defense Intelligence agency, the nationals could counsel, the u. S. Army, joint chiefs of staff so were really very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of
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My end of junior year at high school. My dad told mel i was coming back from hanging out with my then girlfriend, and hes like hector, i want to talk to you. He basically told me the story of how he came to the u. S. And how our tourists visa had exspired when i was still in elementary school. At that time i said all right, no big deal, im going to be fine. I dont need to drive or anything. But as i graduated dowling, i realized that i couldnt go to a state university, i couldnt go to continue on my education due to the fact that i wasnt eligible for state scholarships, i wasnt eligible for federal grants or loans. I wasnt eligible to the things that my classmates were. I then took the initiative, along with my fiancee, who is out there, to go and visit American Friend Service Committee where the Legal Service director explained to me my particular situation. Understanding my situation and everything that it meant really opened my eyes to what i had to do to overcome this situation tha