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The meeting will come to order. I will say at the outset that we hold this hearing to provide information to the public on the Intelligence Communitys assessment of threats facing our nation. I ask that everyone in this room remove any signs you may have and refrain from any disruption during the hearing so that the committee can conduct the hearings and people sitting behind you can see. I will ask the Capitol Police to remove anyone who disrupt this proceeding. Today inittee meets open session to hear the annual report from the United States Intelligence Community on the threats to the Nation Security and let me start by welcoming the witnesses. They are the director of National Intelligence, james clapper, the director of the Central Intelligence agency, john brennan. The director of the federal bureau of investigation, jim tommy, the director of the Defense Intelligence agency, Lieutenant General michael flynn, and the director of the National Counterterrorism center, matt olson. E
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