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Senior National Security Columnist Walter Pincus writes about changes in the mission for U.S. Special Operations Command

She allegedly sent an anonymous text message to her supervisor that said, “Mass shooting at 4 pm location Lollapalooza. We have 150 targets.”

The 18-year-old Lollapalooza security employee was charged with felony terrorism or making a false threat, Chicago police said.

An 18-year-old security guard was arrested at Lollapalooza over the weekend after she allegedly sent text and Facebook messages purporting to threaten a mass...

And more recently he last year defunded the counterterrorism task force, which brought together agencies, experts from all of these different agencies to actually look at what is happening today to do surveillance to ensure there were not individuals doing white national supremacists. what the presidents done is given agencies to hate and has not denounced it. we need him to use his platform to say were all americans and we need unification. >> rick tyler, you used to work for senator ted cruz f...

Yet, of a very firm, stable management style. im hopeful that the administration, over time, will develop those techniques and relations, but i think theres a ways to go. >> and chris, let me ask you, also. you talk about the need, in the book, about the need to have information coming from the tip of the spear, as it were, where the rubber meets the road. do you think that that leadership style works everywhere? >> i think its critical, now. i dont think its a choice anymore. and what we saw in...

To deteriorate iraqi security forces infrastructure there. i agree with the general. this is a good tactical victory. ive seen evidence that particular lay ly units like th golden division. counterterrorism task force -- >> trained by the u.s. >> the reason they are successful is they are multi confessional. you have christians, sunni, s shii shiite, including soldiers that have been tortured. these are real patriots of the country. my concern and where i would sort of sound a note of skepticism...

The u.s. president, french president and elsewhere. michael, i spent a lot of time in iraq as i know you did going back to the u.s. invasion familiar tactic of isis and predecessor in iraq was to retreat but then keep up the attack, blend into the population and carry out ambushes, assaults, et cetera. knowing that pattern, should we assume that something like that is going to follow a tactical victory like this? >> sure. in fact, there is evidence this week that they have escalated their opport...

And i trust the intelligence community. they need more tools. i mean, jake, one of the problems we have is these folks have been able to encrypt their messages. we know that was the case in paris, and we suspect its the case here. in other words, they can communicate and our intelligence community, intelligence authorities cannot see those communications. this is really troubling. this is the issue of encryption. in order solve that, that problem is going to have to be solved by the technology c...

Teenagers who left britain to go fight as well overseas can you give context as to where this case fits nationally and internationally with the continuing trouble to stop westerners from leaving to -- >> were going to pull out of this. this is the very end of the press conference involving police commissioner bill bratton with the nypd also members of the fbi, members of the joint counterterrorism task force, some multiple agencies involved in the arrest of these three men from new york city who...