Ms. Kelly ok. Your testimony continues, quote, d. H. S. Works with our federal, state, local, tribal, international partners, particularly canada and mexico, to address transnational threats. What types of help or information does canada and mexico provide that the u. S. Would not otherwise have access to . Mr. Vitiello so they at c. B. P. And its true with other federal Law Enforcement is we help identify the criminal networks that are responsible for human trafficking, gun smuggling, illicit financing. What we do is we try to understand amongst ourselves with them and ourselves what the threats are and how to combat them and then help identify by network which are the most problematic criminal enterprises . Ms. Kelly do you feel these partnerships have improved over time and youre getting more and more information or theres more of a Comfort Level with these other agencies . Mr. Vitiello so it ebbs and flows as it relates to the international engagement. I think in canada its been st
Opportunity to take advantage of the capacity of opposition elements and syria that can in fact liberate large segments of the population in the region from dsh. We watch it closely, it requires we acknowledge the very delicate diplomatic relation that we have with turkey over this issue. Turkey, of course is attempting to defend itself from the pkk, at the same time manage the border and our relationship with the y pg. I think we worked well them. Just one last point, i would like to underline the point of the importance of u. S. Action against iran. I have a slightly different diagnosis that my colleagues but almost id debacle prescription. I think the missile to test was less about threatening the United States as it was about the internal battle with iranian politics. A big trend of the iranian love this deal and a big chunk hate the steel. One of the chief negotiators of the deal was threatened on the floor of the Iranian Parliament by a member that says we will kill you for what
Hackers will get it and china will get it and we will be less safe. That leads me to a question about the use of encryption by the fbi. Are you encrypting all of your your agents,l of and personnel, and payroll, and systems . Data. We use encryption on a significant amount of data. Id like to follow up with that because i was stunned that the office of personnel did not have that important data encrypted. The federal government should protect itself by encrypting this data. We know that were being hacked constantly by state actors and the enemies of our country and im sure they would love to get data about the f. B. I. I look forward to hearing a greater details on them. I yield back, mr. Chairman. Recognize the gentleman from california mr. Issa for five minutes. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I have so many questions and so little time. Ill try to touch on each and bear with me. On sting rays, im going to ask you to tell us now or for the record how you control the access to these products
My desk, not to dump on hoover i never knew the man but to make sure people understand the danger in becoming in falling in love with your own view of things and danger in the absense of contrant and oversight. Im somebody who believes people should be skeptical of government power. Im a nice person. I suppose you should trust me but you should oversee me, and i should be checked and balanced. Thats the way you straighten power. Its there to remind me. Do you agree his name is not reflective of what the fbi stands for and what the fbi agents of today believe in and do . I think thats fair. If youre focusing hoover did a lot of good things for Law Enforcement in the United States, did a lot of things that through the lens of history we reject as improper. So im no historian, but i would imagine a historian would say take the total measure of the person, figure out whats bad, whats good. Im not equipped to do that. I would like to see his name taken off the building and have a bill, repr
In keeping bad actors from using unbreakable encryption. Which is open source, free, and widely available from Companies Based overseas. As the chairman argued when we had this debate in 1999, only y allowing the use of strong encryption not only domestically but internationally as well can we hope to make the internet a safe and secure environment. I agree with that sentiment and you have made some of the public statements that i hope you can help us to reconcile that view with your call for special access. And, finally, because rigorous oversight is necessary for public trust, i hope that you will commit today to full compliance with the Inspector General act. For the past five years the f. B. I. Has resisted the clear mandate of that law. The Inspector General of the department of justice is to have timely access to every carry t he requires to out his duties. Noncompliance has real consequences. This committee waited until february of this year to receive a report about the f. B. I