russia and china are able to conduct this cyber warfare, which we saw, you know, in our own backyard right here in the united states in the 2016 election. and it s going to keep going. the indications today again from the intelligence community leadership were that the russians not only are going to keep doing this, but that they re getting better at it, that they re learning from our reactions. and the chinese, of course, were designated as the most significant counterintelligence threat. so that means the chinese have sort of jumped on this bandwagon, and the iranians and other rogue nations are going to do the same thing. so, you know, quite apart from our own little focus it s not little. it s the president of the united states for god s sakes. but there s other bigger threats out there. you know, people are looking at how to conduct cyber warfare against us. the intelligence community is focused on it. i hope the administration has too. yeah. susan, russia really just one of t
fe fare and it going to keep going. the indications again today from the intelligence were that the russians are not only going to keep doing this but getting better at it and learning from our reactions and the chinese, of course, were designated as the most significant counter intelligence threat. that means the chinese have sort of jumped on this band wagon and the iranians and other rogue nations are going to do the same thing. so quite apart from our own little focus, not little, it s the president of the united states for god s sakes but there are bigger threats. people look how to conduct cyber war warfare against this. the most senior u.s. officials contradicted the president today. listen to this. i have president putin. he said it s not russia.
testified china and russia are threats, the two nations are more aligned today than they have been in decades and their relationship is likely to grow because of shared interest in adversaries but to the us that means more risk in a complex environment. increasingly challenged to prioritize which threats are important. russia to north korea and china the senate committee or directly from senior intelligence officials. china writ large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face. substantial the capacity of kim jong un. director of national intelligence released 17 agencies testified north korea s mostly for weapon system to break with the white house. north korea will seek to retain its wnd capabilities and is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons. the nuclear deal has held but there are concerning indicators. the iranians are considering
order to encourage them or at least suggest the possibility that such techniques might be put to effective use on behalf hoff that candida owe of that candidate. is this the thing everyone sits around is unaware until it blew up? i d say that a relatively nair assertion. the possibilities that were imagined by this report were really not front and center in the american political discourse. right. we sort of have an intellectual bias, oh, this happened, now we are thinking about it. it s fascinating to talk to people like you in it. you can go back nine years. i will play now bob mueller also talking the way you guys talk. you study this stuff. you were thinking about it. he was concerned about these type of attacks. take a look at mueller. the counterintelligence threat to the united states continues to persist as we saw with a recent arrest of a network of russian spies, foreign adversaries, however, do not rely exclusively on such considerable agent networks.
capitol hill. catherine? thinks, harris, and good afternoon. this public hearing is arguably one of the most important of the year for the u.s. intelligence community, because it publicly lays out threats and also helps set the budgetary requirements with congress. you are right, if there is a dominant theme this morning, it was china. new alliances that china s building with russia, as well as china s long-term strategy to steal american secrets and technology to gain the upper hand with the united states. here s fbi director christopher wray. i think china at large is the most significant counterintelligence threat we face. we have economic espionage investigations, for example. that s just one piece of it. in virtually every one of our 56 field offices. a number of those has probably doubled over the last three or four years. almost all of them, not all of them, but almost all of them lead back to china. on election interference, the feeling amongst u.s.