been for me to keep that secret? i feel relieved it s out in the open. sometimes in the newsroom you get a tip or a lead, but it s not reportable yet. but nothing i wanted to celebrate as much as this. yeah, no, it was awesome, and we love reporting good news. i thought you and her had a great conversation. we were all watching and feeling great about it. thank you for all of that and we ll see you soon. you got it. thanks the alicia and again, our big congratulations to nicolle wallace. our time neighbor and a valued colleague among so many of us, and happy news for her and her family. we did want to say that. that is the personal local stuff. we ll get into all the big news in the world. we re tracking several stories on the beat including heat on a trump codefendant in georgia. the white house touting these democratic wins as they gear up for what they say could be a campaign season of blue wave momentum. we have a special guest on that tonight, someone you may
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Why do we get started. Im professor wallace and i want to welcome you to the International Institute which i am a chairman and a colleague of yonah. I will introduce you all in one moment. First the topic of this program, terrorism captives, tactical legal and strategic implications. Those of you who have come to other programs of the institute and ourselves will know that yonah been that yonah unbearably says we shouldnt forget the victims of terrorism and this is a program about victims in a way. Maybe the first one we have had. One of my colleagues pointed out that i think its isis in egypt is the croatian i think is working in egypt. So tack ticks and strategy. I think yonah mentions in this write up the best practices. One of our colleagues who you will hear has written a book which i happen to have read at this time and he makes the point that we are not very good on strategy and i suppose its a real test it seems to me in this area. How does one formulate a strategy, what might
Half. Good afternoon, everybody. Good afternoon and welcome to to the Washington Institute for near east policy and to the latest in our Stein Program on counterterrorism and intelligence, counterterrorism lecture series. Its my pleasure to have on the podium today buzz ganor, bruce hoffman, marlene mazell an adjunct scholar here, and i am matthew levitt, i direct the Counterterrorism Program here av the Washington Institute. Thank you so much for coming, those of you here in person, and for those watching in cspan land. Terrorist acts conducted by individuals acting on their own, inspired by others, completely alone, not so much alone, its not a new phenomenon. But in the past few years, weve seen an alarming increase in the number of what some have described as lone wolves, lone actors, lone offenders. The Islamic State, certainly, has been very proactive in using its Global Social Media Presence in particular to con transcript individuals, some who have personal problems, others who
Securing the presidency. It will continue over the next few weeks. Before ohio the president elect toured the indiana factory he presented from moving to mexico. The president elect taking the opportunity renew his pledge to build that wall along the border. And trump making a decision, making secretary of defense. The retired four star general in 2005 he said it is fun to shoot some people while addressing Service Members in san diego. Posts on social media calling a district to send a warning School District to send a warning to parents. The request that has department of Homeland Security involved in this one. Abcs Navideh Forghani is getting more information. Reporter i just got my hands on this letter that was sent out by the School District the students after parent told administrators that somebody was targeting their children on instagram. This is what we know so far. The students are in middle school. Whoever sent them was requesting the kids send inappropriate pictures. Now d