Policymakers and the public from homegrown american terrorism to the United States drone wars abroad and around the world to the challenge. The changes with the societal changes id like to first begin by introducing jessie who will begin with a presentation before we jump into the panel portion. Jesse was a propagandist who ran revolutionon muslim in new york citybased organization active in the 2000 z. Connected to a number of terrorism cases and connected the ideology and transformed it for america creating englishlanguage propaganda. The radicalized in 2011 following his arrest and incarceration in the u. S. Hes now executive director of the parallel networks and after the presentation i would like the rest of the speakers to join me on stage to provide an introduction for each of them we will discuss the new initiatives, the changing Threat Landscape future of terrorism prevention practices at the relationship between. We will save the last 30 minutes or so for the audience qanda a
Hes held many of other leadership position at nctc including Deputy Director consulate to the director acting director profits of Data Strategy innovation chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office of director of National Intelligence the National Security council the joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spent some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism and an air of competing priorities. Russell will deliver opening remarks from the podium and then we will sit down for a little fireside chat and asks the first few questions and then open it up to you to ask questions and we welcome all of you who are watching via livestream or via cspan thank you for joining us today. Russell. Thanks very much matt. Its a great pleasure to be here amongst a number of old friends to talk about counterterrorism and resources. I happen to testify earlier this week for the leadership of the fbi and
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the committee will come to ord order. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] without objection the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled an examination of facebook and its impact on the Financial Services and housing sectors. I now recognize myself for five minutes to give an Opening Statement. Today we are here to examine the act of facebook on the Financial Services and housing sectors. Our sole witnesses the facebook chairman and ceo, Mark Zuckerberg. Facebooks plan to create a Digital Currency, libra, and a digital wallet raised many concerns relating to privacy, trading risks, discrimination, opportunities for diverse owned financial firms, National Security, Monetary Policy and the stability of the Global Financial system i and other democrats have called for a moratorium on facebooks
By the acting director of the National Counterterrorism center , russell travers. Todays conversation has sparked institutes ongoing lecture series. Russell took office that nctc as acting director in august but its not his first, second or third time the building. Hes held many of other leadership position at nctc including Deputy Director consulate to the director acting director profits of Data Strategy innovation chief data officer among others. Hes held positions at the office of director of National Intelligence the National Security council the joint chiefs of staff so we are very thrilled that he has been able to carve time out of his busy schedule and spent some time with us today to talk about counterterrorism and an air of competing priorities. Russell will deliver opening remarks from the podium and then we will sit down for a little fireside chat and asks the first few questions and then open it up to you to ask questions and we welcome all of you who are watching via live
Extremism and terrorism. Analysts are expected to talk about the changing Threat Landscape, the best way to combat extremism in all forms. This is live coverage on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] so good afternoon, everyone. We will get started. Thank you so much for coming to new america and thanks to come in for a session which is ctrlaltdel hate, a simple study approach to preventing terrorism and targeted violence. My name is melissa salykvirk and im a senior policy analyst here with new Americas International security program. For those of you new to america we are a thinking action tank that connects the research institute, technology labs, solutions that were, media have an public forum. The International Security program aims to provide evidencebased analysis of some of the toughest security challenges facing american policymakers and the public. For homegrown american terrorism United States drone wars abroad and a drones around the world. To the pr