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At the center of each of these cases hovers a black hole of unknowableness. There is no way to understand why these men did what they did, or even to verify that they did it. Don’t be so quick to believe that Andreas Lubitz committed suicide Saturday March 28 th , 2015  at  3:37 PM 1 Share By Jeff Wise March 27 Jeff Wise is a New York-based magazine writer and author of the "The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found MH370" and "Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger." What, exactly, are we talking about, when we talk about a man who deliberately flies a plane carrying 149 other human beings into the side of a mountain? In a sense, we’re talking about a suicide. That’s a common enough thing. Plenty of people carry it out — 40,000 each year in the United States alone. You could also say we’re talking about murder, and that’s true, too. The other 149 people on board Germanwings 9525 had the

MARCH 25, 2015 Federal Bureau of Investigation Fiscal Year 2016 Budget Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey testified about his agency’s fiscal year 2016 budget request. Topics included the FBI’s mission, programs, and how the agency was tackling issues such as foreign fighters, cyber attacks, and the war on drugs. He said that one challenge in fighting *ISIL domestically was the difficulty in compiling an accurate profile of those Americans who decide to join the terrorist group. An example was the wide age range of the people. He also said that without legislative relief it would be impossible to obtain data off encrypted smart phones even with a warrant due to the levels of encryption allowed. *The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) or the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS or DAISH/DAESH in Arabic), is a militant group that has called itself the Islamic State.