George Washington University
A former CIA counter-terrorism analyst, Aki Peritz is a fellow at George Washington University's Center for Cyber and Homeland Security and the co-author of Find, Fix, Finish: Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden and Devastated Al-Qaeda.
Will the State of Emergency Never End? We’ve heard from Nice about the day after the 3rd major attack in France in just 19 months. Now, more on the investigation and what might come next…
Why Defection Stories Could Battle ISIS Propaganda By the deft use of social media, the Islamic State has projected an image of unity and determination that's helped to recruit new members. Now, there's a report that 58 ISIS defectors are speaking out about why they've left. It comes from the International Center for the Study of Radicalization in London. Aki Peritz is a terrorism analyst, formerly with the CIA now a fellow at the George Washington Center for Cyber and Homeland Security.
Who Is Khorasan? The U.S. launched an airstrike campaign against ISIS in Syria yesterday. But that wasn’t the only group that was targeted. The U.S. also went after the Khorasan Group, and Al Qaeda affiliate based around the city of Aleppo that hadn’t been the focus of much attention until recently.
ISIS Beheads Second Journalist According to Video The ultra-extremist Islamic State has released a video that appears to show the beheading of Steven Joel Sotloff, a 31-year-old American journalist. His life was threatened two weeks ago in the execution video of reporter James Foley. Aki Peritz is a former CIA counterterrorism analyst and co-author of Find, Fix, Finish : Inside the Counterterrorism Campaigns that Killed bin Laden and Devastated Al Qaeda.
ISIS and the Rise of Social Media Terrorism The video of reporter James Foley’s beheading is the latest evidence that the ultra-extreme Islamic State has mastered social media. High-quality propaganda, well designed for intended audiences, went viral—matching the most sophisticated campaigns of multinational corporations. Twitter, Facebook and YouTube will be hard-pressed to block such messages in the future—however grotesque they might be. We look at the impact of this technological expertise, how it serves the Islamic State and how it might be combatted.
What is Trump's plan for Middle East peace? On his first foreign tour, President Trump has promised "peace" between Israel and the Palestinians. Are there any details for re-starting talks that have been stalled for the past three years?
Ex-FBI Director Comey tells his side of the story Today, former FBI Director James Comey came close to calling the President who fired him a liar. The White House denied the claim and called it insulting, but Republican Senators did not challenge Comey’s truthfulness. Many questions remain: did the President try to obstruct a federal investigation? Later, we’ll go behind the “velvet rope” for a look at 5-Star health care for the richest Americans.
Trump's new look at civil rights and global warming President Trump is reportedly ready to pull the US out of the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. We look at the possible consequences. On the second half of the program, we hear about cuts in Obama-Era civil rights programs called for by the Trump Administration's first budget plan.
Is the threat from Russia missing from the Russia meddling probe? There's much being made about the Trump administration's possible ties with Russia. But the bottom line is Russia's effort to influence American democracy. Do the President and his aides care enough to take action before voters go back to the polls?