CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the ramifications of the resignation of national Security Adviser Gen. Michael Flynn on CBS This Morning.

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses the implications of National Security Advisor Michael Flynn's resignation on national security priorities.

“In collaboration with the Counter Extremism Project, Farid has expanded the technology to include video and audio, which he says are major sources of extremist messaging. But the tool is encountering a hitch: Tech companies have been slow to sign on...

By Dr. Hany Farid, professor and chair of the Computer Science Department at Dartmouth College and a senior adviser at the Counter Extremism Project. "Online platforms today are being used in deplorably diverse ways: recruiting and radicalizing...

Some critics have also questioned whether the program’s leaders would ever be able to produce quantifiable results, something that’s ‘difficult, given what they are trying to do,’ said Tara Maller, a former CIA military analyst and senior policy...

Back in the early 2000s, the internet had a problem with child pornography. Tracking these illegal activities became much more difficult, and removing all trace of the images from the World Wide Web seemed nearly impossible. So government officials...

CEP President Fran Townsend discusses enhanced interrogation, black sites and building a wall on the border with Mexico during an interview on CBS This Morning.

Yesterday, Counter Extremism Project, or (CEP), a non-profit organization that partners with agencies and governments worldwide to combat ideological extremists and terrorists, released a new and improved database, along with a slew of updated...

On Nov. 13, 2015, Beatriz’s daughter, Nohemi, was killed in the Paris terror attacks by an Islamic State cell operating out of Brussels. On March 22, 2016, Cameron’s husband, Alexander, and her sister-in-law, Sascha, were murdered at the Brussels...

"They’re less ideological and more violent and they’re more interested in their own survival, in making money," says Marielle Harris, a research analyst with the Counter Extremism Project. "The average Abu Sayyaf fighter would fail a basic test on...