Welcome and a lot of experts and spark people and also to give a shout out to the ambassador martin. And whos a dear friend of ours and interested in history among other things and i note that we are having swift day onnovember 9. Something, a tradition we have longserved. This event is for our friend bruce hoffman. Bruce hoffmanmay have been the first expert on modern terrorism , period. He may have been the very first expert on modern terrorism. He surely was a valuable resource to me when he had rans office in washington and i was a member of the United States congress. Actually, with his bushy beard at the time, i thought he might be a terrorist. And i bought his job at grand might just be cover. Bruce tried to help me create a commission to make recommendations to congress on how to intervene before an individual who is radicalized, having radical views is protected by our First Amendment but how to intervene before a personwith radical views turns to violence. As we all know, vio
The iranians to allow a few americans, staff people, to staff the intersections in a question of engagement. There is a sub question, that says what happened in 2008 with the Bush Administration . Why didnt they ask them . This is a question about more context, but also stepping the intersection in terror on with americans. I take my advice from Yitzhak Rabin when he was Prime Minister, when he was explaining that in the early 1990s why arafats shake her hands on the lawn of the white house. As a former diplomat, and i teach diplomacy, i firmly believe we have to be talking to our adversaries and enemies, that the worst thing you can do from your own perspective, from your own national interest, is to shut yourself off. Ispite we agree the regime odious, we have to have a conversation with them, because and ia powerful regime, think the idea that the united establish iran would a consistent channel for our national interests, we do not do them a ferriter, we do ourselves a favor by hav
Benefits to all military including those serving in the coast guard, reserves, National Guard during by permitting travelers to provide information about themselves ahead of time, we expedite the process for them in airports. With better focus resources to the pool of people we know less about. This advances Aviation Security and should be popular with the republic. Lastly, i am mindful of surveys withinflect the morale various components of dhs. Our greatest asset is our people. Each and every day the men and women work hard to fulfill our critical and noble mission. They dedicate themselves to the security and advancement of our nation. I will be a champion for those men and women of dhs and will advocate on their behalf. Morale also depends on good leaders in place of each of our components. We must inject any energy. Arts withrship sto recruiting new leaders to help run the organization. With the help of the white house and congress, were bringing in some terrific people to bring i
Collectively, we are determined to do something about it. I think people need to understand that there is a variety of terror groups in syria. A monolith, but some have expressed the desire to train fighters in syria to attract attack the west. Whether that will happen or not, it is a threat of people being radicalized here and moving to syria to conduct terror acts s. Is that correct . We need to do our best to pay close attention to an evolving situation. Are talking about radicalization, you are very careful in the way you talked about it. We have excerpts experts in the audience love studied radicalization carefully. One of the think that some of us try to do in congress was to create a Multidisciplinary Commission to advise congress on what the hallmarks are of someone who has radical views which are protected by our constitution turning into someone who is prepared to engage in violent action. We have to find a nexus. We were not able to pass legislation. At the last minute it be
Some ways will never heal. Im going to ask you some questions in a friendly manner. We know you were born on 9 11. Im told you wanted to be a subway conductor in new york city when you grew up. That is my next life. I will be a subway motor man on the number seven train. In case you dont know this, the new york subways are protected to a substantial extent by dhs assets. Look at this. Your background is assistant u. S. Attorney and a guy who has a lots of experience in the department of defense. What equips you now to take on this awesome responsibility to be be principal spokesman for our u. S. Counterterrorism policy . I lead a terrific organization of men and women in the people that are there as leaders. I think we will be doing a terrific job in the next couple of years. The department of defense, a lot of people ask me if dod is like dhs, are they different . How are they different . It is essentially a military organization. Dhs has people in uniform. We have the coast guard. Fo