Subject: **ICYMI: Top Dems on Homeland Security Committe Endorse Clinton's Security Plan**
From: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
To: Adrienne Elrod <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 12:19:05 -0500

*IN CASE YOU MISSED IT*

*Top Democrats on Homeland Security Committees Endorse Clinton’s Security
Plan*

By Simone Pathé <http://atr.rollcall.com/author/simonepathecqrollcall-com/> –
Roll Call

December 16, 2015

http://atr.rollcall.com/top-democrats-homeland-security-committees-endorse-clintons-security-plan/?dcz

The top Democrats on the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees are
backing the homeland security strategy Hillary Clinton laid out at a speech
at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis on Tuesday.

Delaware Sen. Thomas R. Carper and Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson on
Wednesday praised what Clinton called a “360-degree” strategy — a five-part
plan to root out domestic radicalization and fight ISIS abroad — and said
it would help stop another attack like the one that was carried out in San
Bernardino, California, earlier this month.

“In her speech, she laid out the right and responsible approach to
combating the greatest threats to our homeland, including online
self-radicalization, and proposed examining our visa programs to root out
any potential weaknesses – something our committee has been doing in the
wake of the Paris and San Bernardino attacks,” Carper said in a statement.

“As the nature of the threat continues to evolve, we need a leader like
Secretary Clinton who knows what to do to keep Americans safe while
upholding the values and principles we stand for as a nation. I am as
confident as ever in her ability to take on these challenges as our next
commander in chief,” Carper continued.

Delaware’s senior senator endorsed Clinton for president
<http://atr.rollcall.com/clinton-scores-endorsements-delaware-democrats/> in
October after Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. declined to run for the
Democratic nomination.

Thompson, who backed Clinton in November, expressed similar approbation for
Clinton’s remarks.

“Although the threat from ISIL and those who may be radicalized by it is
real, we must respond with vigilance and not fear. Secretary Clinton’s
detailed strategy is a strengthening of the hard work we have done to fight
radicalization and terrorism both at home and across the globe,” Thompson
said.

Clinton met with a group of Muslims before delivering her remarks, and she
made a point of criticizing Republicans whose rhetoric, she said, “plays
into the hands of terrorists.”

“To all our Muslim-American brothers and sisters,” Clinton told the crowd,
“This is your country, too, and I am proud to be your fellow American.”

Clinton called for enhanced intelligence sharing, including cooperation
between government and Silicon Valley, to forge a “unified national
strategy in cyberspace,” the New York Times reported
<http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/16/us/politics/hillary-clinton-calls-on-tech-companies-to-help-thwart-isis-online.html?_r=0>.
In particular, she wants technology firms to remove websites and videos
that promote the Islamic State.

Clinton also wants the Department of Homeland Security to increase its
review of visas, extending to scrutiny of social media accounts, after one
of the San Bernardino shooters was found to have vocalized her support for
jihad on Facebook.

“Anyone who has traveled in the past five years to a country facing serious
problems with terrorism foreign fighters should have to go through a full
visa investigation,” Clinton said
<http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clinton-outlines-360-degree-strategy-on-homeland-security/>,
“no matter where they’re from.”

Backing a measure Democrats have been pushing in Congress
<http://atr.rollcall.com/democratic-challengers-make-gun-control-security-issue/>,
Clinton called for banning gun sales to people who are on the no-fly list.
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Adrienne K. Elrod
Director of Strategic Communications & Amplification
Hillary For America
*www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com>*
@adrienneelrod