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the fort hood independent review committee about the report on the army s criminal investigation division. and on our website c-span.org at 11 a.m. the house armed services subcommittee holds an oversight hearing on u.s. military special operations. fbi director christopher wray stresses the importance of civic education and its link to national security, social media, trust in government, election security and disinformation campaigns. the center for strategic and international studies hosted this event. good afternoon, everybody. my name is john hamre, president europe csis i want to welcome you to what s going to be a very, very interesting conversation. this is a continuation of the series we re doing on the national security imperative for civics education. that may sound odd but during the last year we ve all experienced startling things about how we need to reinforce the importance of civics and since understanding in american society. it s a national securit ....
Insightful with respect to the wall and if we have time at the end i will be happy to take some questions. Let me start with kind of what weve been spending our time on at the department the. This is the operational policy challenges of the department so the first challenge i want to discuss its counterterrorism and as joe and others now counterterrorism was the Founding Mission of the department and it continues to be the cornerstone of what we do compared to 2003 when the department was established the terrorism threat today is more challenging and more decentralized and diffuse and arguably more complex. We are more concerned about the foreign fighters who leave this country and others have traveled to another and take up to the fight and link up with a terrorist organization. They are concerned about the terrorist organizations adapted and skilled use of the internet to publicly recruit and inspire individuals. To prevent th ....
Violations because both of those could essentially put someone in the path of a removal action. So the removal after january 2014. So there is a bit more of a bright line. The numbers in that context will change as we move further and further from that day and still there is a future focus as opposed to the rich respective focus and then finally, we really see the importance of extending valuable resources on the person to enter the debate co into the country illegally in 2014 unless they fall under the one of the priority categories. Said that as the overall philosophy. The key and critical part of the memo to secretary issues for all intents and purposes and secure Communities Program and secure communities had been and remain a controversial part of enforcement priorities over the last few years in part because of what it was designed to be, what it became and this is actively noted, what it became as emblematic of everyth ....