Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or military matters. The co-operation is a two-way street. We share intelligence that has helped protect European countries from attack, helping save European lives.

[These hotspots (other than the United States and Japan) also tend to be countries where laws and law enforcement lag behind what is found in Western-style democracies.] Countries around the world are drafting stronger laws, ... But hackers will find the weakest link, the country with no laws.

But unlike European countries, America has never finished a map of the United States, only the eastern United States is covered and a few spots here and there.

The homegrown terrorists are the most significant because any fighter returning from Syria to the United States would likely be identified and detected by our intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

I always ask two questions: How many countries have military bases in the United States? And in how many countries does the United States not have military bases?

These are Canadian and United States intelligence and law enforcement offices who are working in teams and who are using good intelligence and good law enforcement to really stop the criminals and terrorists before they ever get to the border.