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About outlandish terrorist plots with complex, many, many attackers, in fact, most terrorists want something simple, and they want something that they know works. and regrettably we have seen that these types of attacks work very, very effectively. both at killing individuals, injuring them, and garnering the attention of western governments. and that's the goal. >> and absolutely the attention of western governments, michael nance, in your role, as a former counterterror official and military expert, you can see right away that this is the definition of terror. this is the way to strike terro...

Gathered in the past, and this might be part of the calculation of the perpetrator if, indeed, it is terrorism. you know, london, this part of london is -- i would say it's sort of, you know, kind of a mix of working middle class. a lot of muslims live in north london. it is one of the largest muslim cities in the world outside the middle east or south asia. programs a million muslims live in london. the mayor of london, of course, is a muslim, and i think this all contributes unfortunately to a feeling in london of uncertainty when you've had terrorist attacks in march at the westminster brid...

Sure that they get the answers they deserve to some of the questions that are being asked. now let me return to the subject of our hearing. mr. chairman, i agree that the re-authorization of section 702 is terribly important. as the attacks in london, paris, manchester, melbourne and the list, unfortunately, goes on and on, all those attacks have demonstrated terrorists continue to plot attacks that target innocent civilians. section 702 under court order collects intelligence about these potential terrorist plots. it authorizes law enforcement and the intelligence community to collect intelli...

They deserve with so many questions that are being asked. i'll return to the subject of our hearing. mr. chairman, i agree the reauthorization of section 702 is terribly important. as the attacks in london, paris, manchester, melbourne and the list goes on and on, all those attacks have demonstrated terrorists continue to plot attacks that target innocent civilians. section 702 under court order collects intelligence about these potential terrorist plots. it authorizes law enforcement and the intelligence community to collect intelligence on non-u.s. persons outside the united states. where th...

Try to get them to carry out terrorist attacks in isis' name. we have senior line direction over these encrypted apps in half of all the terrorist plots that we have seen in europe since 2014. a very big part of this terror threat coming from isis using encryption online to communicate with sympathizers back in the west. it's very, very difficult to intercept any of that, if not impossible in real time, anderson, if you don't know who your target is, you don't have a suspect. so european security agencies have been flying blind. u.s. security agencies have been flying blind despite the huge am...