FBI Comey's remarks in Texas yesterday is really worth a watch for CT analysts.http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/101307143 …
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Comey talks about "military force took off some of the Directors" off the battlefield in 2015 had a effect on stemming plots.
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He states that the FBI is "still dealing with a 1,000" active ISIS cases.
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Comey talks about the spring/summer of 2015 where they had dozens of cases involving IS virtual entrepreneurs.
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Says FBI investigated Omar Mateen for 10 months. Thinks Omar 'radicalized' very quickly at the end. Thinks FBI investigation was thorough.
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For more background on the 'IS Directors' and spring/summer 2015 plots, see
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Comey also talks about FBI agents and analysts working together more. Says it's better than before.
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Which is a shift, FBI used to list analysts in their internal phone book as "support staff". Agents had separate section.
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Comey makes a joke that he needs cyber security folks to work at bureau but they like to smoke weed so gotta think diff about possible hire
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Comey says FBI looked at 2800 devices for investigations within 3 months. 43% could not reviewed because encryption. Cc:
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