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In favor of brexit. That was like a tectonic shift and it was a major change with consequences that were both farreaching and unclear. Brexit changes everything, but how . So businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever sense and rands study that we are talking about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean or our Economic Policy and for our operation so im excited to see many friends of the Wilson Center here today and that rand. Im going to introduce our panel and my idea is that we will hear from charlie about the bulkof this study. Turn this over to then michelle for some comments and then have fran and howard way in. Who are these people, you may ask . Charlie reese, Vice President international at rand, former Us Ambassad ....
The committee will come to order. I want to remind our members, our guests and our staff that we are at the unclassified level for todays hearing. Im also obligated to remind the witnesses that providing false information to this committee or concealing Material Information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome director of National Intelligence, james clapper, deputy secretary of defense robert work and the under secretary of defense for intelligence, marcel lettre. Thank you for all three of you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats today from terrorism threats to aggression by nation states to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information acros ....
Slowly but surely, i. S. I. L. Is losing ground in iraq and syria but dont kid yourself. It is far from defeated as a global force of violence. After blitzing across both countries in 2014 i. S. I. L. Fighters have spent the last six months getting killed or driven out of some key places. Like ramadi in iraq and aleppo in syria. Whats more, i. S. I. L. Last lost some key road connections, linkining the iraqi city of mosl with territory it controls in syria. American special force he are helping the Iraqi Government and cushtkurdish informs rolling i. Back. And syrian troops are fighting both i. S. I. L. And the u. S. Backed rebels. Either way, i. S. I. L. Is on the defensive now in both syria and iraq butter the group is very much on the offensive everywhere else. The i. S. I. L. Ideology is morphed into a franchise thats being taken up by the likes of boko haram in nigeria and grille la a groups. The same story in libya. The ne ....