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If we do not include young people in the growth of our cities, if we do not provide them opportunities, the story of waithood, the gateway to terrorism, to violence, to gangs, will be the story of cities 2.0.
Artificial intelligence is being used to predict crime and
terrorism
in Xinjiang province, where the Muslim minority is already under constant surveillance.
CA: But they've made a calculation that it was worth doing this as part of America's defense against
terrorism.
ES: Well, when you look at the results of these programs in stopping terrorism, you will see that that's unfounded, and you don't have to take my word for it, because we've had the first open court, the first federal court that's reviewed this, outside the secrecy arrangement, called these programs Orwellian and likely unconstitutional.
So is it really
terrorism
that we're stopping?
CA: I mean, do you think there's a deeper motivation for them than the war against
terrorism?
Do you think there's a deeper motivation for them other than the war against
terrorism?
The bottom line is that
terrorism
has always been what we in the intelligence world would call a cover for action.
But what we saw is, in the post-9/11 era, they used secrecy and they used the justification of
terrorism
to start these programs in secret without asking Congress, without asking the American people, and it's that kind of government behind closed doors that we need to guard ourselves against, because it makes us less safe, and it offers no value.
So the unconstrained disclosure of those capabilities means that as adversaries see them and recognize, "Hey, I might be vulnerable to this," they move away from that, and we have seen targets in terrorism, in the nation-state area, in smugglers of various types, and other folks who have, because of the disclosures, moved away from our ability to have insight into what they're doing.
CA: So in terms of the threats that face America overall, where would you place
terrorism?
RL: I think
terrorism
is still number one.
You've got places like Iraq, which is suffering from a high level of sectarian violence, again a breeding ground for
terrorism.
I mean, first of all, a lot of people who look at risk and look at the numbers don't understand this belief that
terrorism
is still the number one threat.
Apart from September 11, I think the numbers are that in the last 30 or 40 years about 500 Americans have died from terrorism, mostly from homegrown terrorists.
The chance in the last few years of being killed by
terrorism
is far less than the chance of being killed by lightning.
CA: Snowden said two days ago that
terrorism
has always been what is called in the intelligence world "a cover for action," that it's something that, because it invokes such a powerful emotional response in people, it allows the initiation of these programs to achieve powers that an organization like yours couldn't otherwise have.
I'd love to tell you that I didn't flinch, but I was terrified, and when my fear subsided, I became obsessed with finding out how this happened, how animal rights and environmental activists who have never injured anyone could become the FBI's number one domestic
terrorism
threat.
Now these companies have backed new laws like the Animal Enterprise
Terrorism
Act, which turns activism into
terrorism
if it causes a loss of profits.
They were praising Dr. King as his style of activism was branded as
terrorism
if done in the name of animals or the environment.
Instead, I choose to use my experience to fight back against terrorism, against the bigotry.
I do it for the victims of
terrorism
and their loved ones, for the terrible pain and loss that
terrorism
has forced upon their lives.
For the victims of terrorism, I will speak out against these senseless acts and condemn my father's actions.
All of the grand challenges that we face today, like climate change and human rights and demographics and
terrorism
and pandemics and narco-trafficking and human slavery and species loss, I could go on, we're not making an awful lot of progress against an awful lot of those challenges.
In the West, it's often assumed that Muslims generally condone
terrorism.
In fact, many people of Muslim heritage around the world are staunch opponents both of fundamentalism and of terrorism, and often for very good reason.
The first is in the strength of her family and all the other families to continue telling their stories and to go on with their lives despite the
terrorism.
It is not enough, as the victims rights advocate Cherifa Kheddar told me in Algiers, it is not enough just to battle
terrorism.
We must also challenge fundamentalism, because fundamentalism is the ideology that makes the bed of this
terrorism.
The time to speak up in support of all of those who peacefully challenge fundamentalism and
terrorism
in their own communities is now.
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