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The Risk of Terrorism at Home and Abroad

The Cipher Brief

Silber: At this very moment, it is unlikely that Al Qaeda or ISIS-K have the infrastructure, resources, recruits and external planning ability to strike the United States based on statements by the IC and senior DoD officials to Congress. However, without any, or only limited external pressure by the U.S.

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The Targets of Global Terrorists

The Cipher Brief

Silber: At this very moment, it is unlikely that Al Qaeda or ISIS-K have the infrastructure, resources, recruits and external planning ability to strike the United States based on statements by the IC and senior DoD officials to Congress. However, without any, or only limited external pressure by the U.S.

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Iran and Hezbollah?s Pre-Operational Modus Operandi in the West ? Part One

The Cipher Brief

Cipher Brief Expert Mitch Silber and Ioan Pop have pulled from court documents and open source reporting to compile a modus operandi of Iran and Hezbollah and their efforts to attack the west. It sheds lights on the recruitment, training, and placement of these agents and the intricacies of their past operations. Mitchell D.

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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Same goes with open source contributions, blog posts, or other things. I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I’ll tell you if they are good or not!

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Interviewing is a noisy prediction problem

Erik Bernhardsson

When I started recruiting, I had so much confidence in my ability to assess people. Same goes with open source contributions, blog posts, or other things. I have done roughly 2,000 interviews in my life. Let me just throw a couple of algorithm questions at a candidate and then I’ll tell you if they are good or not!

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Our Response to 9/11 Gave us Lessons for COVID-19

The Cipher Brief

diplomats and intelligence personnel regularly engaged their foreign counterparts to improve information sharing, to silence pro-militant propaganda outlets, and to end recruiting hubs and finance streams that enabled al-Qaida operations. million in 2004 and 1.2 The impact of the global campaign has been striking.

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