Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

ISIS Online: Countering Terrorist Radicalization & Recruitment on the Internet & Social Media

Date: July 6, 2016
Time: 2:00pm
Location: Dirksen Senate Office Building, SD-342
Agenda:

The hearing examined the threat posed by terrorist propaganda and U.S. government efforts to counter it, with a particular focus on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) and other terrorist network’s use of online communications to radicalize and recruit within the United States.  

Witnesses

PANEL 1

Michael

Steinbach

Executive Assistant Director—National Security Branch

Federal Bureau of Investigation

PANEL 1

George

Selim

Director, Office of Community Partnerships, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Director, Interagency Task Force on Countering Violent Extremism

PANEL 1

Meagen

LaGraffe

Chief of Staff to the Coordinator & Special Envoy, Global Engagement Center

U.S. Department of State

PANEL 2

Peter

Bergen

Vice President

New America Foundation

PANEL 2

Alberto

Fernandez

Vice President

The Middle East Media Research Institute

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