Festival of books in the barnacle gives a history of the civil war battle. Visit booktv. Org for this weekends television schedule. Now on booktv, ilan berman predicts the collapse of russia due to internal social and demographic decline and external challenges from china. It is about an hour. [applause] thank you. I love that john is making his way off the stage so when you throw things at me you have an unimpeded view. Thank you as always for your interest and thank you to the Heritage Foundation for hosting me. Always nice to come out and talk about issues i work a lot on in the privacy of my office and share it with a broader audience. Let me start sort of where john ended which is to talk about the external first and then focus on the internal. The question of russia and where russia is heading not only ideologically but geopolitically and demographically, i spent a lot of time looking at both professionally and personally. My personal history is i am the child of soviets so i hav
Decade. So the work will continue. Are you getting cooperation from libya on this issue of capturing and seeing that those who committed the attacks on our conflict are brought to justice . I dont want to talk in particular about particular operations or particular conversations, but as we have said publicly the leaving government has been cooperative with us in this investigation. We expect them to be cooperative with everything weve done and the support weve given them. Let me ask you, in terms of the al libi capture on october 5, as i understand he was captured on october 5, placed on ship and then was interrogated for, this is going to all public information, now hes been publicly indicted, until the 12th in which is brought into civilian custody, is that right . I dont know the exact dates spent just about a week of interrogation . Sounds right. Mr. Beers, identify the beginning of al qaeda as the attacks on our embassies in africa, and, of course, al libi has been charged with th
As soon as they experience it. Them as quickly as possible and we can protect others as quickly as possible. Protection liability is constructed i am not a lawyer, i cannot do find that in the legal terms that you all need to put into the law, but i we arewould be ready and willing to help with ethical assistance on trying to define precisely what it ought earlierlike as we tried with the last attempt to write the legislation in this body. Mr. Olson . I dont have anything to add on that cyber legislation. Thank you. Lets talk a bit about the lone wolves, american citizens, in many cases, that become radicalized, in some cases by traveling abroad and being exposed to jihadist activities and other cases being radicalized here, yogurt over the internet and in no communities. I worry about that, and i know you do, too. Share with us what you are doing in trying to address that threat and how you are working together and how we can help you. Let me go ahead and start. In addition to the gre
Other of us has been contacted about dealing with something when the other of us was with already running a parallel investigation to that kind of activity which provided absolutely critical information to resolving that particular case. The other thing to keep in mind for the American People is these investigations are really hard because of the difficulty in getting asterisks about who finish attribution about whos actually doing it. But with dedicated investigators, we have brought town a number of these bad actors. Can i just add a word, senator . Ive worked a lot of different kinds of investigations in my career, career, and when youre doing a la cosa nostra investigation, you can deconflict by calling up each other or setting up a meeting for next wednesday. When the threat is moving as a foe on the does on the internet, theres no time to make that phone call. So the genius of this is the fbi and dhs person are sitting next to each other, they can respond in the way thats needed.
Who has a diagnosed Mental Illness. There are many, many ways in which this issue was responded to, but in particular in the faith community. The association for Mental Illness. And cami have faithbased initiatives. There are other synagogues and other churches and other faithbased groups who deal with this issue in their own particular way. This morning, wed like to invite you into this serious and important conversation, with members of congregation roto sholom. In particular, senior rabbi Stacy Freedman and joann foreman who is at congregation shalom. Thank you so much rabbi and joanne for being here. Thank you for having us. Rabbi freedman. Why dont we jump in and ask you, why did you consider this particular issue to be so important to your particular synagogue and to the Jewish Community at large . Thank you for asking. When this program began, or when we decided that it was a real need, i had been at the congregation for about 20 years. And increasingly in the months preceding t