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The Lawfare Podcast: Monaco, Clapper, and Lynch --- The Aspen Security Forum Mixtape: Volume II

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4.7 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2015

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

Last week, the Aspen Security Forum featured interviews from a host of Obama administration national security officials, some of which we provided last week. This week is part II, wherein we share edited discussions from White House Homeland Security Advisor Lisa Monaco, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch. 

Monaco's conversation with Mike Isikoff of Yahoo News ventures into the Administration's policy on ISIS and what she calls a "generational struggle," the trials of social media as a recruitment vehicle, and most interestingly, whether Obama would act unilaterally to move Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the United States. 

Clapper's discussion with Andrew Mitchell of MSNBC is most notable for his comments on lone wolf attacks and going dark, a threat about which he shares much of the same concern as FBI Director Comey. Later, Clapper touches on the OPM hack and why the United States is choosing to respond much more forcefully to economic espionage than "traditional" espionage.

Finally, in her interview with Andrew Mitchell, Loretta Lynch walks us through the challenges of domestic terrorism, the Justice Department's approach to intvestigating and prosecuting home grown ISIS supporters, and the legal protections afforded to Guantanamo Bay detainees should they be moved to the United States. 

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How we're going to go at this is going to be through local forces.

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And frankly, the military will be the first one to tell you,

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this is not going to get done by military force alone,

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which is why we've got a strategy that talks about going after their finances,

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that goes after their foreign fighters, that goes after the humanit,

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the incredible humanitarian issues.

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Well, the Chinese or whoever it is,

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we, you know, we had an opportunity to do the same thing, we probably do it.

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You mean they're better than we are?

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Well, in this one case, you maybe have to give them a point.

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Many of the cases you've mentioned involve people who either are trying to carry out acts of violence,

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or they're trying to travel overseas to Syria, for example,

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to join ISIS, or still to join al-Qaeda or al-Shabaab.

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And we look to see what their networks might be,

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we look to see who else might be involved in their plan,

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to see is this the only plan that's out there?

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