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WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI should speed up the pace of its improvements to deal with the evolving terrorist threat around the world and improve its intelligence-collection capabilities, according to an outside review released Wednesday.
The report found that the FBI had made significant improvements since the Sept. 11 terror attacks but that there was room for improvement, especially at a time of emerging threats such as the Islamic State and foreign fighters in Syria.
"The threats are not just knocking on the door. They're in the room," said former Rep. Timothy Roemer.
The report also says the FBI needs to improve its analysis and collection of intelligence, and that Congress should provide the bureau with "the authorities and state-of-the-art tools" it needs to fight terrorism.
It says that while the FBI now does a better job in sharing information with other law enforcement agencies, there's still room for improvement.
The report was released Wednesday by FBI Director James Comey and members of the 9/11 Review Commission. That group was established last year to measure how well the FBI had followed an earlier set of recommendations in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The report examined five terror plots and attacks in the last few years, including the 2009 Fort Hood shooting and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. It also took a fresh look at the Sept. 11 terror attacks, but found no new evidence to change its conclusions about who was responsible.
Why does this little Norfolk cottage for sale have two front doors?
No, you’re not seeing double, this little Victorian house for sale in Caister-on-Sea really does have two front doors! But why?
The postman really does knock twice at this little house on Beach Road in Caister-on-Sea because there are two, almost identical front doors.
Both doors have two steps, painted in red, both have a black letter box, black iron door handles and one has a door knocker, the other a more modern bell.
The only clue as to which door is used by the owners is the fact the one on the right hand side has a modern key mechanism and a peephole for visitors.
Little was known about the history of the house, for sale for a guide price of £200,000-£220,000, except that it was built in the mid 1800s until the EDP put out a plea for information.
Several people emailed in as a result and it is now understood the house was once two fishermen’s widow’s cottages built in 1856 by the then Lord of the Manor, Thomas Clowes for £300; so the reason for two front doors as there would have been a dividing wall between them.
The ladies were allowed to live rent free and were given a ton of coal a year for their heating.
Last night the grandson of a widow who once lived there contacted the EDP with even more details. He said: “My late grandmother Mrs Ada George lived in number 100. She lived there in late 1960s, maybe earlier than that. I was only a small kid and have vague memories of the house.
“She lived in the left side house and another widow lived in 102 (the right hand door.) She lost her husband at sea on a trawler called The Waverley in the 1930s, off the coast of Scotland.
The stone plaque visible above the doors did state ‘Widows’ Houses’ along with the initials TC and the date 1856.
The property is being sold by agents Minors & Brady. It has been renovated and extended, now offering two double bedrooms, a lounge/diner, bathroom, kitchen and a conservatory in an extension at the rear. Outside it sits in a courtyard behind front railings and is in walking distance of the beach.
Not too long ago I was invited into "All Things Crowd," a group on Facebook that focuses on the convergence of crowdsourcing, crowd-funding, collaborative consumption, and the sharing economy. One of the group's most recent conversations was around wearable technology and our thoughts about it. Being in the health and ...
When it comes to effective marketing within the healthcare sector, building strong relationships with customers is absolutely job #1.
Targeting is a key benefit of online marketing, but anyone who has worked in the online healthcare space knows that it's easier said than done. A digital tactic that effectively engages one population may work dismally with another. New tactics are being developed all the time, but since many are unproven for healthcar...
In 1848, a small deposit of gold was discovered in California's American River. While some wanted to keep news of California's gold a secret, it was impossible to prevent rumors from spreading about its newfound wealth. Local merchant Samuel Brannan is credited with igniting the California Gold Rush when he strode thro...
Without invoking the usual parade of statistics, social media and the decision-making it impacts is clearly now as important as the phone to the relationship between companies, consumers and professionals.
We have all heard the phrase "customer experience" and the importance many organizations are placing on it. But what does that exactly mean? It's more than just "customer service." You might be thinking, "We don't have a 'customer experience' strategy at our company." Rest assured, every organization has a customer exp...
Enhancing the patient's hospital journey.
Plan B reveals the sixth song to be taken from his sophomore album.
Plan B has confirmed the title and release date of his new single.
The singer will release 'Writings On The Wall' on March 7.
The track, which was written by Adele, Kate Nash and Florence and the Machine hitmaker Paul Epworth, marks the sixth cut from his sophomore album The Defamation Of Strickland Banks.
The song's release coincides with the star's UK tour, which kicks off in Dublin on February 27 before wrapping up at London's O2 Arena on March 10.
Plan B's last single 'Love Goes Down' peaked at number 62 on the chart in December.
He recently promised fans a "big" performance at this year's Brit Awards.
Have Fox and the White House Declared a Truce?
Numerous sources are reporting a meeting occurred Wednesday between high-ranking officials at the White House and the Fox News Channel to try and reach an end to hostilities between the Administration and the nation's leading cable news network.
With Fox's ratings soaring as a result of the incursion, and the White House looking more and more foolish, one has to wonder what the Adminstration could have offered to make this deal possible.
Lady Gaga is seen in New York City.
Lady Gaga and Celine Dion have been added to the list of performers singing in honor of Frank Sinatra next month.
Zac Brown and Harry Connick Jr. will also perform at "Sinatra 100 - An All-Star GRAMMY Concert'' on Dec. 2 in Las Vegas, the Recording Academy announced Tuesday.
Sinatra, who died in 1998 at 82, would have turned 100 on Dec. 12.
Previously announced performers include Garth Brooks, Tony Bennett, Carrie Underwood, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Adam Levine and Usher. More performers will be announced at a later date.
The taped event at the Wynn Las Vegas Encore Theatre will air as a two-hour CBS special on Dec. 6. The Recording Academy will announce nominees for the 2016 Grammy Awards on Dec. 7.
Editor’s Note: On November 13, Kemal Derviş spoke at the Turkish Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Turkey’s road to the 100th anniversary of the Republic. This lecture was hosted by the Turkish Embassy and the American Friends of Turkey.
It is a great honor and pleasure to be able to share some thoughts with this group of distinguished guests tonight. I am very grateful to the organizers, the AFT and Elizabeth Shelton, and to Ambassador Tan for hosting it. Turkey is about to embark on the decade leading to 2023, the 100th anniversary of the Republic fo...
From 2005 to 2009, I was Executive Head of the United Nations Development Program, headquartered in New York. In 2007, I hired a new research analyst for my front office. She was a very bright young Turkish woman, perhaps about 25 years old. She was not from Istanbul, Ankara or Izmir, but from Samsun, on the eastern Bl...
I asked myself, is there any other leader who passed away decades ago, in the first half of the 20th century, the picture of whom would be the first thing a young research analyst would hang on her bare walls, by her own initiative, outside of her own country, the minute she started a new job, in the first decade of th...
Millions of Turkish women, in particular, carry deep in their hearts a lasting gratitude for the revolutionary changes Atatürk introduced to make it possible for them to become equal citizens, equal human beings.
Millions of Turkish women, in particular, carry deep in their hearts a lasting gratitude for the revolutionary changes Atatürk introduced to make it possible for them to become equal citizens, equal human beings. Putting Atatürk on the wall as the first thing she did was symbolic of how his name and the history of the ...
One of the Turkish novels that impressed me the most as a young man was Kemal Tahir’s novel entitled “Yorgun Savaşçı”, in English, the “Tired Warrior”. It is a novel about the catastrophic defeat of the Ottoman Empire, it’s tearing apart by the Western powers after World War I, the terrible feeling of loss in the heart...
Despite the ethnic ideology that some later tried to impose, Atatürk’s Republic was founded on a multi-ethnic basis – indeed there is his famous answer to the question of who is a Turk: A Turk is a citizen of the Turkish Republic. Just like an American is a citizen of the United States, whatever her or his origin.
Despite the ethnic ideology that some later tried to impose, Atatürk’s Republic was founded on a multi-ethnic basis – indeed there is his famous answer to the question of who is a Turk: A Turk is a citizen of the Turkish Republic. Just like an American is a citizen of the United States, whatever her or his origin. But,...
The second dimension of this feeling of identity linked to Atatürk is rooted in the impressive modernization that he led from above and that was, despite its critics, amazingly successful. Anatolia had been one of the poorest and least developed parts of the late Ottoman Empire. Places like Egypt, Syria, Bosnia or Mace...
Even before the Second World War, Turkey became a respected, modern and independent nation, no longer the “sick man of Europe”, able to give its educated elites at least, a feeling of “equality” with the citizens of the most advanced parts of the world. Turkey was not a colony. Turkey was not dominated by others. Turke...
Even before the Second World War, Turkey became a respected, modern and independent nation, no longer the “sick man of Europe”, able to give its educated elites at least, a feeling of “equality” with the citizens of the most advanced parts of the world. Turkey was not a colony. Turkey was not dominated by others. Turke...
Of course these two dimensions were strongly linked in the minds of the “tired warriors” who found the strength to rise again and create the Republic. Professor Şükrü Hanioğlu, in his book on Atatürk, tells us that after attending a western opera in Sofia as a young military attaché, an impressed Mustafa Kemal is said ...
I think it is these two dimensions, the memory of sheer survival, and the feeling of participating as an equal in global progress, that explains why the young woman in New York wanted Atatürk on her office’s wall, before anything else. Nobody was forcing her, nobody was telling her to do it, she wanted to do it because...
Before turning to today and the future, let me touch on another important point. There is little doubt that the early Republican period was accompanied by sometimes bloody repression of rebellion and dissent, in very authoritarian ways, and by what quickly became a one party state led by a single man. One should not fo...
Atatürk and his companions saw the one party state as a tool for the revolutionary period, not an end in itself. The long term objective, already at that time, was for Turkey to become a democracy like France, Britain or the United States. It should not be surprising, therefore, that the minute the Second World War end...
Let me now go fast forward and look at where Turkey is today, and how it is heading to 2023, on a journey that started almost a century ago.
Let me begin by the economy. Economic success is crucial on the road to 2023. For many decades Turkey has been one of the more dynamic economies of the world, starting form a very low income base. The average GDP growth rate from 1946 to 2002 was about 5 percent, on the middle to high end of international experience. B...
Turkey’s public debt now stands at about 38 percent of GDP. Compare that to the more than 80 percent public debt ratios in the United States and in most European countries, with some, such as Italy, reaching 120 percent.
Turkey’s public debt now stands at about 38 percent of GDP. Compare that to the more than 80 percent public debt ratios in the United States and in most European countries, with some, such as Italy, reaching 120 percent. The Turkish household and private sector, however, have very low savings rates by international sta...
For the 2023 objective to be met, or for Turkey to come very close to it, there are several key conditions that must be fulfilled. The investment rate has to average not less than 23-24 percent, with domestic savings at about 18-19 percent, so that the current account deficit can stay below the 5 percent mark, which I ...
Beyond these factors having to do with economic management as such, the overall confidence citizens have in the future is of course also a key factor for economic success.
This brings me to the second precondition for reaching the goals set for 2023. There has to be true internal peace and social cohesion. The fact that a party with strong references to religion is now in government for a decade, and is making plans for the hundredth anniversary in 2023, shows how Turkish democracy has e...
Two more underlying structural challenges still stand in the way of a fully developed democracy. First, Turkey has to not only remain, but also to redefine secularism. I referred at the beginning of my lecture to the reason why, despite Atatürk’s secularism, Islam, and in fact Sunni Islam, was treated as a “de facto” i...
The second, equally important challenge, is related to the Kurdish issue. The Republic was founded as a multi-ethnic nation-sate, like the United States. But it was at a time when nationalism was reaching its peak in Europe. The founders of the Republic understandably thought they had to, and they largely succeeded in,...
There is therefore only one solution. Turkey’s Kurds must not engage in violence and must seek their goals within Turkey’s democracy, while Turkey must become a country where Kurds can fully live their culture and identity as they perceive it and want to live it, as citizens of Turkey.
There is therefore only one solution. Turkey’s Kurds must not engage in violence and must seek their goals within Turkey’s democracy, while Turkey must become a country where Kurds can fully live their culture and identity as they perceive it and want to live it, as citizens of Turkey. As long as they respect democrati...
Finally let me conclude with a few words on a third element the successful journey to 2023 must encompass, that has to do with Turkey’s place in the world, foreign policy and Turkish-American relations. Again these are not my areas of professional specialization, but it is not possible to separate economic, democratic ...
As time is short I just want to make three points on these issues, which are crucial, however. They reflect in many ways, views you can also find in President Abdullah Gül’s two impressive speeches referred to already above, although I cannot of course pretend to speak for him. I recommend to all who are interested in ...
The first and most important point relates to Turkish “soft power”, particularly in the Middle East and the Moslem world. It is already very effective, but it could grow even more, by an order of magnitude. Our historical, cultural and emotional links with the Arab countries in particular, are deep and strong. I had th...
The second dimension here relates to Europe. The whole European project and its institutional architecture is going through a severe crisis these days, triggered initially by the Greek crisis, and then by the more general problems of the Euro-zone. Europe remains, however, taken as a whole, an economy roughly as large ...
Turkey can and should join this re-structured European Union and be a member more like the United Kingdom or perhaps also Sweden, outside the Monetary Union, but a full member otherwise, with elected euro-parliamentarians, a Turkish member of the Commission and participation in the European Council, the same way the Un...
Turkey can and should join this re-structured European Union and be a member more like the United Kingdom or perhaps also Sweden, outside the Monetary Union, but a full member otherwise, with elected euro-parliamentarians, a Turkish member of the Commission and participation in the European Council, the same way the Un...
Finally, let me share my perspective on the relations between Turkey and the United States, a topic on which many have spoken with great eloquence, including President Clinton when he visited Turkey, as well as president Obama soon after he was elected in 2008. Don’t worry, I am not going to start a whole new lecture a...
The United States and Turkey are both countries and societies with a strong global dimension. The United States in its very social fabric, is linked to all parts of the world, with strong ties of course to Europe, but also to South and Central America, to Asia, with sizeable and growing Hispanic and Asian-American comp...
The world faces new, tremendous, global challenges. From climate change, to restoring solid and sustainable economic growth, from world trade and finance, to safety from terrorism or nuclear proliferation or to the control of infectious disease, many of the most difficult problems require strong global cooperation. In ...
The next decade will not be an easy one, for Turkey, for the United States or for the World. We will have to work hard, whether our activities are primarily economic, political, civil society oriented or academic. I do hope and trust however, that many of us, in 2023, will be able to celebrate, wherever we may be at th...
Thank you all for your patience and for giving me the privilege of sharing my perspectives with you this evening.
Mobile phones are key to economic development. Are women missing out?
Ina Garten is one of the most famous and beloved cooks in America today. Better known as "the Barefoot Contessa," Garten sits atop a culinary empire built on her bestselling cookbooks, a string of hit TV shows and a legion of devoted fans. William Brangham joins Garten in her kitchen studio for a conversation about how...
Now we visit one of the most successful, prolific women in America, the creative force behind the Barefoot Contessa cookbooks and TV shows.
William Brangham recently went to see Ina Garten at her home on Long Island, New York, and has this look at her life and career.
Can I have another bite?
You can have as much as you like.
This is the best job.
Isn't it? This is what I get to do for a living. Isn't it unbelievable?
Ina Garten is one of the most famous and beloved cooks in America today. Better known as the Barefoot Contessa, she sits atop a culinary empire built on her bestselling cookbooks, with millions of copies sold, a string of hit TV shows.
Just because it's a weeknight dinner doesn't mean it has to be boring.
And a legion of devoted fans.
This is my little secret garden.
We visited Garten at her home and headquarters in East Hampton, New York. We talked in the huge barn she had built next to her House that's now her office, test kitchen and TV studio, all in one.
This is where the show is shot, and this is where we test recipes. And every morning, I walk across the lawn and I meet the two people, Barbara and Lidey, who work with me. And we just go, OK, what are we going to do today?
That's the extent of your commute?
It's like 100 yards, I think, maybe less, maybe 50.
I usually just put it right in the middle.
I was working at OMB, Office of Management and Budget.
Yes, for Ford and Carter. And I worked on nuclear energy policy. How's that for precedent for the food business?
It makes no sense whatsoever.

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