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| The agenda of the meeting will reportedly focus on social media use by militant groups. (Photo: Jason Howie/flickr/cc) |
by Nadia Prupis, staff writer, Common Dreams, 8 January 2016
Heads of intelligence agencies and other top officials head to Silicon Valley for private summit on counter-terrorism
The Obama administration is reportedly looking to Silicon Valley for assistance in the war on terror, as a handful of top government officials on Friday head to San Jose, California for a private summit with leaders of Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and other tech giants.
According to Reuters, which first reported on the meeting Thursday, attendees will include White House chief of staff Denis McDonough, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI director James Comey, National Intelligence director James Clapper, presidential counter-terrorism adviser Lisa Monaco, and National Security Agency director Mike Rogers.
One item on the agenda for the meeting, according to the document seen by the Guardian, is "In what ways can we use technology to help disrupt paths to radicalization to violence, identify recruitment patterns, and provide metrics to help measure our efforts to counter radicalization to violence?"
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