Rhode of the new yorker and the investigative correspondent for National Public radio. I told david and dina, we were talking just before the session, that as a career diplomatic, Career Foreign Service officer when i hear the term deep state, and thats the title of our book today, when i hear that term, i think about some thuggish authoritarian regime, you know, turkey in its worst days, egypt under the dictators. I dont think of the United States of america. As we begin today, since david and dina are both really respected members of the American Press corps, i want to say how much we respect the press. The Aspen Security Forum would not work without journalism, nearly not all, but nearly all of our sessions are chaired by journalists. And i think of the citizen, one of the saving graces of the United States is the 1st amendment, the power of the press. I felt in government, as a state department spokesperson, that the press was doing its job to challenge me and challenge my colleagu
This hearing will look at a range of violent antigovernment this aint about politics here. This is something that happens on the political spectrum that involves violence, threatening institutions, and we have got to look at it, and that is what we are doing today. So these threats range from decentralized and leaderless it is incredibly irrelevant to me which groups we look at so long that we are looking at the principal ones that threaten peoples lives. Some of these extremist movements stream from ideologies that are decades old. Others are relatively new. These threats range from decentralized and leaderless accelerationist networks to more structured militia groups. Antigovernment extremism is one of the Common Threads, but we often see overlap with antiimmigrant, antisemitic, antiblack, antimuslim ideologies as well, bringing these extremists into common cause with others who are extremist in nature. We have an opportunity to discuss the current Threat Landscape from these moveme
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