Lisa Monaco, Former Homeland Security Advisor, on Today's Threat Landscape

Intelligence Matters

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🗓️ 2 January 2019

⏱️ 37 minutes

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In this episode of Intelligence Matters, host Michael Morell speaks with Lisa Monaco, former U.S. Homeland Security Advisor to President Barack Obama. She reviews her career trajectory from federal prosecutor to Hill staffer to running the National Security Division at the Department of Justice to a series of high-profile roles at the White House. Monaco evaluates the existing threat from foreign-directed terror attacks, the importance of continuity in counterterrorism policy, and the evolution of cyber threats facing the United States.

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0:37.0	The good news is that the threat, as we saw at post 9-11 of Command and Control Complex
0:43.7	Foreign Directive Attacks, is greatly diminished.
0:50.0	The bad news is the conditions that made it possible for Al Qaeda to take root, that
0:56.4	made it possible for ISIS to expand and occupy the territory to recruit and radicalize
1:02.3	all of those things still exist.
1:05.4	Okay, cyber.
1:10.2	Give me your view of the threat.
1:13.5	The cyber threat is more diffuse than ever before, in terms of the number and the types
1:18.9	of actors.
1:19.9	Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea in that order.
1:24.5	There is no longer a cybersecurity coordinate in the White House.
1:28.4	To not have one person who's waking up 24-7 with access to the President, focusing on
1:33.9	it, I think that's a mistake.
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