Threat to projects and Homeland Security counterterrorism program. He will be speaking on treasuries war, the unleashing of a new era of financial warfare. One final reminder. When this panel concludes we have to clear the room just like we did yesterday so the hotel can set up for lunch about 50 minutes and then well come back in and start our lunch program. Gives me great pleasure to introduce our moderator this morning, mary derosa, distinguished visitor from georgetown law. Thank you. [applause] thank you, everybody. Im very excited to be here as we have a really terrific panel. We are here to talk about cybersecurity, and how we address these significant and growing threat from criminals, hackers, terrorists, anarchists, and other nations who are spying on us, stealing from us, intruding, disrupting and potentially attacking our private sector government infrastructure. I dont feel like i have to say very much about the threat, gives a lot of background, particularly in this crowd
Lets go to a second question and that is given the way in which this nexus crosses two communities, the Law Enforcement community and the National Security community, are we effectively organized to deal with these problems and the special issues of this nexus and how should we be changing our organization nationally or internationally to be dealing with these issues. Any thoughts from the panelists . We should not go to knee jerk reactions when a major disaster happens and ill give you an example. Back in the days of my partnership of trying to bridge that gap between intel and Law Enforcement and Work Together, during that time we had an Organization Called the organized crime operation. S group. Case officers from the cia, i had about 15, at any given time 15 to 20 fbi agents and analysts assigned there fulltime. It was very successful. With regard to Human Trafficking internationally, we did two renditions in that program for Major International human smugglers working together. 9
In canada, there is medical marijuana permitted, and the canadians say that organized crime is teaking advantage of the fact there is medical marijuana permitted, setting up growth facilities and things like that. In the netherlands, theres been a substantial loosening of drug issues there, but interesting thing is it brought in a lot more drugs in the netherlands since they legalized marijuana to the point that starting this year, the netherlands prohibits any foreigner from going into their pot shops. The checks have legalized a significant amount of drugs recently. That allowed the police and the resources of the Czech Republic to focus efforts elsewhere, but it has not done much for the drugs at all, and poe land, i believe it is, theres a fairly successful story of legalizing drugs and things Getting Better there, so i think its really going to depend on society that youre looking at. If you have a society as large as the United States and legalize drugs, its, you know, you are go
Interpol, u. N. Headquarters in new york. Among discussions was either to eliminate or cut by 50 the fbis international offices. Again, another act of absolute stupidity. I want to go to the hill and argue anybody who raises the issue to tell them how stupid it is, why we need the relationships, why we need representations, and how every day it affects u. S. And health of the u. S. National security. An example of that, a particular u. S. Senator i will not name, landed once in a foreign country, greeted by the fbi agent there, and his remark was, well, i guess the fbis sun never sets on the fbi. The agent was polite and everything, but he could have said, the sun never sets on u. S. Interests either, pal. [laughter] thank you. [applause] we have a lot of agreements and initiatives that i had to talk about the americas with the americans. Im concerned about how demanding that its been used to help been misused, and who a lot of money has been lost, and more concerning to me is to see t