John Cohen: “Not using `radicalization.' [Its] focus is not to police thought but to prevent violence.”

When public figures whether they be in the media, whether elected officials or former elected officials amplify and spread those narratives, they validate them, and when they validate them, they increase the potential that an individual…

Our job is not to police thought and speech. Our job is to prevent acts of violence.

Today, the Department of Homeland Security operates with the understanding that, as it relates to domestic violent extremism, we face the greatest terrorist risks from those extremists who have been--either been recruited by al-Qaeda or…

There was a perception that the CVE Program, which was started with good intentions, was mainly a subterfuge to facilitate surveillance of communities of color.