Some schools. The list of protective groups who deserve equal warnings are becommng common in colleges and universities. Minutes. We dont have time to talk about all these topics in a half hour, of course, so weve chosen to focus on three examples of a trend that is quite positive, but is creating unintended and difficult consequences. To help us think about this amorphous, but very important topic, we have three panelists. To my left is the director of graduate studies in the department of religious studies at the university of iowa. Next to him is, or her, is andy giller, who is an attorney with rush and nicholson. Then finally is maeve clark, who is a librarian at the iowa city public library. Good morning, and thank you all for joining me. Andy good morning. Kristy good morning. Maeve thank you for asking. Decided to talklkabout, at least initially, are parental supervision, antibullying measures, and trigger warnings. First, parental supervision. There was a case in new york city
Extremist group al morabitum which we havent really heard of before. How big is this is the first part of the question and secondly how do you rank the groups and their threats toward the homeland . Which one should we be the most wary of . Let me bite that off in a couple of different chunks madam vice chair. We did point out in our statement this year to the emergence of this group in north africa which is an offshoot on which is al qaeda and ghraib, and internal fights about direction is a group that we know of as the al mura battalion which includes known links to al qaeda and they have engaged in internal feuding that has put them into separate organizations from the way we look at them. We look at that grouping as a significant threat to our interest in and across north africa. As far as the ability to project a threat potentially to the homeland i would describe that as more potential than actual at this point but they certainly have taken note of what happened in western europe
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. We are going to get the hearing started. I want to welcome director Nick Rasmussen from the National Counterterrorism center. Nick, we have invited you here today in an open session. I think some of the news outlets vice chair that said this would never happen with me being chairman that everything would be close and i want to point out we are having an open session and this is to provide the senate and the American People with an update on the current threat from terrorism. The committee remains concerned about the expanding evolving nature of this threat than the challenges facing the Intelligence Community and the evolving nature of the threat. This is the first of what i hope will be a number of open hearings that should give the Intelligence Community an opportunity to better inform the public of its current efforts and challenges. As mr. Rasmussen and i have talked about here is what we do. More importantly here is why the American People
Tough situation. Thats a terrific question senator and isils propaganda runs the gamut. You are absolutely right to point to some of these horrific videos including that sends a signal and attracted some element of isils propaganda also includes a fair number of messaging examples in which they paint a fulfilling life in the caliphate that they project to individuals who may be disenfranchised, disadvantaged dissatisfied in their home environment. So the range of factors for people than that going to places like syria now ranges from ideological that you pointed to but also to the psychological catering to some sense of wanting to belong to something no matter how depraved that group they would belong to is. And to others its the sheer sense of adventure and a chance to throw your hat into the winning side is a part of the calculation. We have tried to disaggregate all the different factors in the messaging we are seeing so we can develop contra messaging strategies to go at it. The pr
Haener. And im frank somerville. Workers say that talks have broken down and theyre going on strike. Jana katsuyama is live where shes been getting an ear full. Reporter thats right frank, and you know they were here overnight and talked for three hours straight but now it appears theres no one left in the building and the federal mediator came out earlier this afternoon and told us theres nothing more he could do. About 2 00 p. M. George kohen who succeeded in the nfl and n ba said he failed to bring b. A. R. T. And its workers together. What we tried to do at this point in time was not successful. Reporter both sides came out to talk. Both unions said that the Sticking Point was b. A. R. T. s request to change work rules. At the last minute they threw in a management clause to take away our rights as workers. We have proposed through the general manager that we move all the remaining unresolved issues to an interest arbitration. Reporter but cunniham says that the workers wanted regu