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February 21, 2017

CEP President Fran Townsend joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss President Trump's revised travel ban and his newly appointed National Security Adviser, Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster.

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February 21, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses what may be different in the expected new Pentagon plan for fighting ISIS. Maller said the coming plan should also address fighting ISIS online, including getting Internet and social media companies to take down...

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February 18, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses leaks of classified information and other national security topics with Connell McShane on the Imus in The Morning program.

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February 15, 2017

CEP Spokesperson Tara Maller discusses possible replacements for National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn, who resigned from his post.

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February 14, 2017

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the ramifications of the resignation of national Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn on CBS This Morning.

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February 14, 2017

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the implications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation on national security priorities.

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February 12, 2017

“In collaboration with the Counter Extremism Project, Farid has expanded the technology to include video and audio, which he says are major sources of extremist messaging. But the tool is encountering a hitch: Tech companies have been slow to sign on...

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February 8, 2017

By Dr. Hany Farid, professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College and a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project. "Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways: recruiting and radicalizing...

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February 6, 2017

Some critics have also questioned whether the program’s leaders would ever be able to produce quantifiable results, something that’s ‘difficult, given what they are trying to do,’ said Tara Maller, a former CIA military analyst and senior policy...

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January 27, 2017

Back in the early 2000s, the internet had a problem with child pornography. Tracking these illegal activities became much more difficult, and removing all trace of the images from the World Wide Web seemed nearly impossible. So government officials...

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Extremists: Their Words. Their Actions.

In Their Own Words:

We reiterate once again that the brigades will directly target US bases across the region in case the US enemy commits a folly and decides to strike our resistance fighters and their camps [in Iraq].

Abu Ali al-Askari, Kata’ib Hezbollah (KH) Security Official Mar. 2023
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