finally, we have evan wolf, no relation, but evan is a partner in washington, d.c.office where e he helps lead the privacy and cyber security practice. it focuses on privacy and data security including regulatory compliance, safety act, corporate international investigations, corporate compliance in government nance cyber security and environmental audits. he has significant experience in the area of infrastructure protection prior to entering private practice, he serves as an adviser and was involved in the development of dhs. previously he held the position of homeland security project analyst to the mooider corporation. evan serves on the external advisory board, the national security task force and is involved with the aba and is the co-chair of the homeland security law institute and senior adviser to the committee on law and national security. so evan has in past years organized this panel and graciously invited me to sit on the panel. somehow this year he's managed to trick me into moderating. we'll see if he pulls that off again next year. in 2011 evan was i

wolf. >> certainly made me stop. living in new york, taking the train yesterday, stop and pay attention to what's going on. evan back to you, hearing from the fbi director, america sort of suddenly came into knowledge of this al qaeda-linked group, khorasan a couple of days ago when the u.s. struck them in syria. now james comey is saying quote-unquote he's not confident at all that the attacks disrupted any potential plans. how effective were the strikes in the first place? do we even know? >> well, brooke, they're still assessing the damage that was done and how many people were killed. but we do know, i'm told by officials that what the fbi director was talking about was the fact that they do know from intelligence that some of these guys, some of the leaders of this group, the khorasan group, managed to get away. that they managed to disappear. and so they know that they killed some of them. but they also know that there are still others out there who are plotting. and we're talking about al qaeda's best bomb makers here. there's very much a concern. >> so then juliette, in this sense of heightened alert, w