Mr. Amble is a Ph.D candidate at King's College London, where he studies regional violent Islamist groups and is the managing director of Global Torchlight, LLC, a political and security risk consultancy. He has also served as an intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency as part of the U.S. military's chief counter-terrorism intelligence task force. His extensive military training includes resident professional courses at the U.S. Army Intelligence Centre and the JFK Special Warfare Center. Mr. Amble's previous research is examining patterns of radicalization and homegrown terrorism in North America and Europe.
Thank you very much to both of you for appearing before our immigration committee. We're going to ask each of you to speak to the committee for up to ten minutes each.
Mr. Amble, we will proceed with you first. You have the floor, sir.