9 30 a. M. Eastern here on cspan2. Next, a look at how isis recruits supporters on the internet and how the u. S. Government combats them online. This is about an hour. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. Were going to get started. So welcome to this panel, disrupting isis online the challenges of combating online radicalization. This panel is put on by the Advisory Committee to the congressional internet caucus, and were hosted by the congressional internet caucus, and wed like to thank the cochairs, congressman goodlatte and congresswoman eshoo and senator john thune and Patrick Leahy for hosting us here today. The caucus hosts events every few weeks on salient topics to the internet and policy, and and we invite you to come out for events throughout the summer. So today we have several excellent panelists with us today. We have emma llanso from the center for democracy and technology who works on the Free Expression project. We have Rashad Hussain from the department
Congress from that. Look, i will say on my side of the aisle, we are one party. Obviously this is a hard issue to talk about but i understand and support what the nrcc is doing, i just think members of congress should be removed from it. To ricks point, i worked for 12 or 13 years on staff but largely in my professional life about 20 years with my predecessor, just a wonderful legislator, a wonderful man by the name of bill young. He came in in 1970. You know, when we first got elected in 1970, the nrcc raised money for us. The nrcc gave us money. Now we are in a world where you get elected as new member of congress and you get a bill, you are given your dues. Its one of the worstkept secretes around here. Members of congress are told this is how much money you have to raise for the party based on years of service and i got a 400,000 bill this year, im not paying it. Does that put me on the outs a little bit . Sure. Does that mean we cant find a way to continue to Work Together and i c
Islamic state of iraq in the levant, and on page 15 it says we reject the lie that america and its allies are at war with islam. I would disagree with the first statement, i dont think were leading, but i would agree with the second statement, that we are not at war with all of islam. We are at war with radical islam and islamic extremism. Yet nowhere in the strategy does that term appear. In fact, the only two times the word islam appears are in the two instances i just mentioned. Yet Climate Change appears 19 times. I would ask do you think the National Security strategy has enough specificity to adequately inform the documents of the National Defense strategy and the National Military strategy to actually have a positive impact on executing a strategy for degrading and ultimately defeating isil . And secondly dr. Lynch, i would ask in your statement about the momentum of isil being halted. Just within the last 24 hours, theyre knocking on the door of the al Assad Air Base where we h
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome secretary of state john kerry. [applause] am pleased to share with you and i think all of you know this anyway, that the threat posed by violent extremism has been a top priority for president obama from the day that he became commanderinchief. A very few months after he took office he spoke to the university in cairo and stated clearly that on his watch, the United States would relentlessly confront violent extremist pose a grave threat to our security because we reject the same thing that people of all faiths reject, the killing of innocent men, women and children. He continued, its my first duty as president to protect the American People. In the year since, president obama has proven that he understands the best way to do that is to protect not only the American People but also innocent people everywhere. And to Work Together as a Global Community to fight back against the violent extremism that attacks all of us. Thats why he has literally spen