-- al-qaeda in the islamic maghreb. it is irrelevant topic -- it is 8 relevant topic. without further ado, jumbo. >> -- ron jean-luc marret. >> good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. the jamestown foundation has invited me here to make a presentation on some elements of the french counter-terrorism operations. i currently live in washington d.c. -- washington, d.c., and i am a senior fellow in a french think tank located in paris. we are a non-partisan think -- think patank. however, i would like to state at the outset that the views presented here are subjective, and i only speak for myself. the subject of french counter- terrorism is not an easy one. i say this for several reasons. by tradition, there is a lot of industry the surrounds this type of activity. then, there is the issue of transparency. france, i think, has always had this culture of intelligence that is far different from the american one. it is more discreet on public relations and public diplomacy, also very recently the french intelligence service has

. >> maghreb in arkansas but but my question is one of the more fascinating debate portions in which you allow several voices to talk but the question is whether or not clinton could be considered a supporter of the new deal or whether or not he was in fact, or the argument presented on both sides. i wonder to the scope that it if you felt personally and with a research to gathered do feel clinton upheld that or the way that? >> did he modernized new deal or liberalism says a it democratic leadership council is the it organization where he honed his centrist strategy. did he modernize the new deal and salvage you're effectively and it? that is a great question and one that is difficult to resolve part of the welfare question puts it into it puts a question on to display in 1994, he proposed and campaigned in 19925 he proposed in 19942 reform welfare containing $9 billion of additional spending for things like child care and job training. that was 1994 by then health care initiative had gone down in flames. and he had low political capital after congress took over they started to work

you mentioned al qaeda and maghreb and north africa. we find people who are working in europe where there's a lot of immigration flows from algeria, mauritania from morocco and libya and tunisia who deal with individuals who have a range of activities going on in europe and then people who are in north africa so you bring those people together and you asked them for alternative viewpoints on the nature and the degree of nature of the threat coming out of aqim or in general. study the -- stand up to networks that can do it but one thing i mentioned as we have been exceptionally difficult time getting close to the actual leadership in getting an understanding of what their operations are going to be but they also telegraph though sometimes. if you think about inspiring all of the on line sources that terrorist put out there, they are telling us what they are going to do and that is very important. i will comment on something else regarding understandings soviets. you know one thing the intelligence community benefited from was the jewish