Updated: Oct. 26, 2018 By BRIGADIER GENERAL (ret.) PAUL GREGORY SMITH Although the motivation behind the recent distribution of numerous pipe bombs won’t be certain until the perpetrators are apprehended, it is likely that this is an act of violent extremism. The FBI defines violent extremism as, “encouraging, condoning, justifying, or supporting the commission […]
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State Lawmakers Hear Testimony from Nichols College Counterterrorism Faculty
BY LORRAINE U. MARTINELLE BOSTON—Nichols College counterterrorism graduate program faculty testified May 9, 2018, before the Massachusetts Legislature’s House Committee on Technology and Intergovernmental Affairs and the Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security. The public hearing, which focused on cyber security, was held amid allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election […]
Mass. Legislature’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee Members Meet with Nichols Counterterrorism Experts
Members of the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Public Safety and Homeland Security (PSHS) were on “The Hill” Tuesday, Jan. 30 — but on Dudley Hill, not Beacon Hill. They met Nichols College Graduate and Professional Studies (GPS) Adjunct Professor Colonel Tom Stewart and Executive Director Kerry Calnan, state Sen. Michael O. Moore, Nichols President […]