Hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good morning tom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to predict how it would happen, the extent of it, geographically ideologically or anything else. I think we thought it would and i might say before we started any program we paid tribute to the families. The families of 9 11 have been the most Extraordinary Group and they have taken the greatest tragedies in anybodys life and turned it someways into triumph and into progress and works to help other families, the people every single minute with the Largest Organization of families last week and they a
Posted by the Bipartisan Policy Center. Welcome, everyone. With the Bipartisan Policy Center. It is a real pleasure to welcome a group of friends and experts to a conversation about a report we are releasing today. Defeating terrorists, not terrorism. Assessing counterterrorism policy from 11 to isis. Our goal here today is to take a k at the United States effort to confront and engage terrorism and the last decade and a half. A are also seeking to engage difficult question, which is to try to understand the role that extremist ideology plays in the ckolence that continues to wra the globe. At this is a question many folks have wrestled with for a long time and is really the focus of this study. It is important to begin this that 16by remembering years ago, nearly 3000 innocent lives were taken in new york, washington, and pennsylvania through a vicious and senseless terrorist attack. That has forever changed the arc of american policy. Question we have insted profound resources over t
Discussed Counterterrorism Measures and the role everyday citizens can have in stopping potential threats. This is 25 minutes. So i would like to start with governor kaine and congressman hamilton with a question, when you were working on the commission as we were working on it did you expect the fight against terrorism would be and here we are 16 years later. Good morning lee. Good mornintom and chris. Delighted to be with you. Go ahead, tom. Is great to have you. Most of you dont know its a very modest man and held a staff together and helped get that report. Thank you chris very much. I think that we thought there would still be a terrorist threat. We were smart enough to predict how it would happen, thextent of it, geographically ideologically or anything else. I think we thought it would and i might say before we started any program we paid tribute to the families. The families of 9 11 have been the most Extraordinary Group and they have taken the greatest tragedies in anybodys li
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[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] matthew olson, first of all, welcome. To all of you, all four of you. Matt olsen is cofounder of ironnet cybersecurity. Previously serving as a director of National Counterterrorism center where he briefed the National Security council and reported to president obama on counterterrorism activities. Mr. Olson also previously served as general counsel nsa focusing on surveillance law and cybersecurity. Under the bush administration, mr. Olsen served as acting assistant attorney general, National Security division, doj. Mr. Olsen also served as executive director of Guantanamo Task force special counsel director to the fbi and served as federal prosecutor for more than a decade. Hes a graduate of university of virginia and harvard law school. Adam kleine is robert m gates Senior Fellow Center for new american security, widely published in areas of National Security, surveillance, counterterrorism, law and policy. He was previously an att