The FBI director Christopher Asher Wray concluded his trip to Kenya Wednesday after a series of meetings with top security officials. https://shorturl.at/OwnG6
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00:00Well, thank you, Director Amin.
00:02It's great to be here.
00:03And by here, I mean both here at DCI to talk about all the great work our folks are doing
00:09together, but also here in Kenya.
00:12I'm especially grateful for the opportunity to hear your perspective as a leader on the
00:18continent on the threats that we face and to be talking about more ways our partnership
00:24allows us to be even more effective at countering those threats.
00:29The partnership represented here is one of the closest the FBI has, and we spent the
00:35morning discussing the threat picture from each of our perspectives.
00:39I was encouraged to hear how many areas of overlap there are among our priorities and
00:46our focus.
00:48I have said before that the bad guys are not constrained by international borders, so the
00:54good guys should not be either.
00:57And together, leveraging our collective insights and authorities and perspectives, we're making
01:04a huge impact on the threats we face, terrorism, of course, very much top among them.
01:11And that is due in large part to the leadership role that DCI plays in countering terrorism,
01:18both here in Kenya and in the region more broadly, and to some extent, really around
01:22the world.
01:24So I will stop there and just say thank you again to DCI and Director Amin for hosting
01:29us this morning.
01:30Thank you for your partnership and the perspective that you and your officers bring, and I look
01:36forward to all the great work we're going to continue to do together in the years to
01:41come.
01:42Our relationships with our FBI partners, like DCI and Director Amin, those partnerships
01:47are especially important given the threat that foreign terrorist organizations like
01:53al-Shabaab pose to security both in this region and beyond.
01:59Tackling threats like the terrorist threat requires teamwork and everyone bringing their
02:04unique capabilities and perspective together.
02:08And one of the most effective tools that we've found for combating the terror threat, though
02:14it applies to other threats as well, is the Joint Terrorism Task Force model, the JTTF
02:20model, and bringing together investigators from different agencies to sit side by side,
02:27shoulder to shoulder, sharing information in real time at the level where it can be
02:32actioned quickly and effectively, and combining the unique authorities and tools that we all
02:39have to maximize impact.
02:41When we at the FBI pioneered that concept, that model in the United States, it was considered
02:48very novel, and JTTF Kenya is the first of its kind, not just in the region but in many
02:54ways in the whole world.
02:57And so Kenya's creation of a JTTF of its own demonstrates their commitment to collaboration
03:04and to innovation to tackle the threat, which is certainly growing.
03:09And that's a credit to Director Amin and others in the Kenyan Government who recognize
03:14the value of collaboration to combat threats most effectively.