at thescussion up up -- potomac institute is about one hour and 45 minutes. i amdies and gentlemen, the ceo and chairman of the potomac institute for policy studies. we are a not-for-profit think tank in the washington dc area that focuses on the issues of science and technology, how science and technology is .hanging our society for almost 17 years now we have been the host and home for the international center for terrorism studies headed up by professoryona alexander. and i think most people here would agree and understand that the center that yona has is one of the most foremost academic institutions and consortiums of institutions in the world focusing on all aspects of terrorism. hasessor alexander's group looked at, studied, and published documents on every conceivable realm and aspect of terrorism for many, mary -- many years. personally author of over 100 books on the subject and we are quite proud at the potomac institute to be the home of his academic efforts. we are also privileged to partner with the international doninstitute and professor walla

personally is an offer mac of over 100 books on the subject and we are quite proud here at the potomac institutebe the home of his academic efforts. we are also privileged to have partnered with the international wall institute and professor wallace is here representing them as he always has with the international institute and for well over a decade we have partnered with v. ili and professor wallace to bring you these seminars and discussions. today we are focusing and going to have high hope a very spirited discussion presentation followed by question and answer discussion with the audience on one of the most insidious and hard to defend parts of terrorism associated with the lone wolf where we have built up a tremendous body of policy and procedure for dealing with the groups and state sponsored terror for some. the lone wolf the individual plots put together a plot often in sympathy with the group it is often hard to find before hand. finding and dealing with lone wolves will continue to be one of the most challenging aspects of the society going forward. how we use technology to do that an

when we have this discussion, we have also had in our think tank at the potomac institute there is an issue of the technology that always comes up. surprised that the general public does not realize this. i want to point out this issue about the technology. it is important that the general understands the capability to find outliers and global's and where that technology has progressed. not just in the civil -- government but in the civil sector. andou take your credit card try to take a dollars worth of gas out and go to the bank and withdrawal all your money, it will go dead. the credit card companies have built a profile of fraudulent behavior. cards isior of stolen so well understood that the computers will manage it and your cards will go dead on the spot or you'll have to call in and verify who you are. all of your frequent buyer is computerized. all the minute that -- minute data -- metadata is available. if you buy something and it prints out certificates for you or discount cards, those cards are tailored to you. they have in profiling you. if you buy a bunch of books on amaz

we are proud here at the potomac institute to be the home of his academic efforts. re also privileged to have partnered with the international law institute and professor donald wallace is here represented as he always has, the chairman of international institute, and for well over a decade we've partnered with aisle i am professor wallace to put, to bring to you these seminars and these discussions on terrorism. today we are focusing on going to be very i hope very spirited discussion, presentatpresentat ions followed by question and answer discussion with the audience. one of the most insidious and hard to defend parts of terrorism, that associate with the lone wolf, where we have built up tremendous body of policy and procedure for dealing with terror groups and state-sponsored terrorism. the lone wolf, the individual who puts together a plot often in sympathy with a group is often hard to find beforehand. finding and dealing with lone wolves will continue to be may be one of the most challenging aspects to society going forward to how we use technology to help us

he does every time we've had this discussion in a couple of seminars like this at the potomac institute we've also had an upstairs in our think tank inside the think tank here at the potomac institute several times, and there's an issue of technology that always comes up. i'm always surprised that the general public doesn't realize this. i want to point out the issue of the technology right to because i think it's important that the general public here, c-span and across the nation, understands the capability to find outliers, if you will, to find lone wolves, where that technology has already progress to. in the civil sector, the commercial sector. not in the government. best example is, in credit card behavior if you take your credit card and try to take $1 worth of gas at any live with that credit card go to the bank and tried to withdraw all your money, that credit card will go did. the credit card companies have built a profile of fraudulent behavior. they have profiled it very well. so the behavior of stolen art is so well understood that the computers will manage it and undercard

the potomac institute hosted a discussion on the threat of lone wolf terrorist attacks like those inklahoma city at fort hood and what the u.s. can do to reduce the risks. counterterrorism consultant michelson criticized the government's response and suggested a zero risk society is an achievable goal. >> let me just say however i want to go back to question number 22 can a society survive, and i raised baghdad as a model of a society that somehow continues to function under the most horrific conditions and certainly there are others around the world as well. and the question has been raised you know, what if that were to happen here next the united states is arguably the most resilient society in the world and yet we are probably one of the societies that is least willing to confront the issue of resilience in the face of actions like this. 9/11 did not destroy the united states. 9/11 wasn't horrific event. the economic consequences probably got magnified because of our reaction, but the event itself and i say this with all due respect. i lost friends on 9/11 like many people in thi