International and Domestic Terrorist Threats: Deputy Homeland Security Advisor Russ Travers

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🗓️ 14 April 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, President Biden's Deputy Homeland Security Advisor at the National Security Council Russ Travers speaks with host Michael Morell about the varied and diffuse array of terrorist threats to the United States. A career intelligence officer and former acting and deputy director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Travers offers a history of Islamist terrorism and describes how splintered, geographically dispersed networks tied to ISIS and Al Qaeda continue to pose a threat to the U.S.. Travers and Morell also discuss the increase in racially and ethnically motivated attacks by domestic groups, and why preventing them poses a complex set of challenges for U.S. law enforcement and intelligence communities. Travers also shares thoughts on how to responsibly move resources away from counterterrorism toward Great Power competition.

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0:00.0	This is Intelligence Matters, with former acting director of the CIA, Michael Morrell.
0:06.6	Brought to you by Lockheed Martin.
0:08.7	Your mission is ours.
0:12.0	The rest is the Homeland Safe today from the Islamist threat.
0:15.1	To answer that, I think you need to hand to a couple of competing narratives, because
0:19.5	there is a tremendous amount of good news.
0:21.9	The caliphate was destroyed.
0:23.2	Hundreds of al-Qaeda and ISIS leaders and platters were eliminated.
0:27.4	On the other hand, there was some news that didn't quite so good.
0:31.6	All those al-Qaeda and ISIS branches and networks do still exist.
0:35.6	Last month alone, we had an excess of 100 al-Qaeda attacks in the Middle East and Africa,
0:41.2	and ISIS over 200 attacks in Southeast Asia, Southeast Asia, African Middle East.
0:49.6	Can you kind of paint the landscape on domestic terrorism for us?
0:54.0	The broad view of the community is that it's likely to get worse.
0:58.0	I think there's the general concern that biases against minorities, perceived government
1:03.9	overreach is going to continue to drive domestic climate extremism, radicalization, and eventually
1:09.9	mobilization of violence.
1:11.9	And then we've got all the kind of newer social political developments, the narrative surrounding
1:18.0	election fraud and the breach to capital, conditions related to COVID, and various conspiracy
1:25.5	theories that promote violence almost certainly are going to make matters worse.
1:33.8	Russ Travers just started a new job as President Biden's deputy homeland security adviser.
1:39.6	Russ was the former acting director and deputy director of the National Counterterrorism
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