Video Transcript

I think one of my goals as the supervisor of the squad has been to ensure that everyone on the JTTF, on the squad, knows that their contributions and their feedback and their perspective is valuable.

We all will benefit from all of us contributing and being involved and weighing in on all of these different cases. Because we all come from different backgrounds. We have an agent on the squad who is a native Arabic speaker. He has very interesting perspectives and background and, capabilities that he brings. We have an agent that is new to the squad but not new to the FBI that has worked white collar … primarily white collar crimes in the past. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience about white collar crime, financial information. At the end of the day, terrorists are like many other, criminals. They still need money to achieve their, their goals. And so looking at the money is hugely important as well.

So the FBI's JTTF model has expanded and evolved and has been copied now by our cyber side, our counterintelligence side, by our traditional criminal side. We now have task forces on many of the different squads and areas that the FBI works. And the reason for that is because that task force model is incredibly effective when you have a variety of different people from different agencies and different walks of life and backgrounds working day in and day out, every single day with each other.

We all are better for it. We will not miss things. We will catch things. We’ll be in better communication with one another. And we will more efficiently and effectively investigate and ultimately disrupt terrorism.