Americans election part two oversight of Government Agencies. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. Last month this Committee Held apart one of the series of hearings on securing americas elections. In that hearing, three witnesses have been jointly selected by the committee testified unequivocally that the nations elections are under attack. The former director on the National Security council under both president clinton and president george w. Bush warned we must take bold, decisive and expeditious steps to address the cyber threats. We must treat elections activity as an imperative for safeguarding our democracy. Secretary of state from the commonwealth of pennsylvania and moderated elections activity is a race without a finish line and our adversaries are not slowing down. This testimony has been confirmed by the leaders of our Intelligence Community. Last month the director of National Intelligence testified about the foreign actors wouldve viewed by 2020 u. S. El
Subcommittee on a rise of organized retail crime. Discuss how criminal networks are recruiting people online and on the black market encourage congress to pass new legislation to help address the issue. [background noises] [background noises] committee on Homeland Security subcommittee and counterterror and Law Enforcement intelligence will come to order. Without objection subcommittee may recess at any point. The purpose of this hearing is to evaluate the unprecedented uptick in organized retail crime in the United States and to hear testimony from key witnesses from federal government and private industry. I doubt recognize myself for an Opening Statement. That afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime threats to our public safety. The topic of todays hearing is the issue of organized retail crime. Which has been rising throughout the country demonstrating a threat to tens of thousands of retailers of all sizes and subjecting employees and custom
The committee on Homeland Security comes to order. The purpose of this hearing today is to evaluate the uptick in retail crime in the United States. And your testimony. I recognize myself for Opening Statement. Good afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime and threats to public safety. The topic of the hearing is the issue of organized retail crime , which has been rising throughout the committee, demonstrating a threat to and subjecting employees and customers to real harm. As Many Americans flock to stores to complete holiday shopping, Large Organizations are exploiting dashed to carry on an unprecedented spike in retail crime. Generally it involves two or more people obtaining items through theft or fraud through criminal enterprise. This is not the same thing as petty theft. Or shoplifting. This involves multiple events across stores and jurisdictions , further complicating efforts for Law Enforcement combat these crimes. We have reports that
The committee on Homeland Security comes to order. The purpose of this hearing today is to evaluate the uptick in retail crime in the United States. And your testimony. I recognize myself for Opening Statement. Good afternoon. We welcome you to todays important hearing on organized retail crime and threats to public safety. The topic of the hearing is the issue of organized retail crime , which has been rising throughout the committee, demonstrating a threat to and subjecting employees and customers to real harm. As Many Americans flock to stores to complete holiday shopping, Large Organizations are exploiting dashed to carry on an unprecedented spike in retail crime. Generally it involves two or more people obtaining items through theft or fraud through criminal enterprise. This is not the same thing as petty theft. Or shoplifting. This involves multiple events across stores and jurisdictions , further complicating efforts for Law Enforcement combat these crimes. We have reports that
Thank you, mr. Chairman. Sir, is it the policy of your office for u. S. Attorneys to use prosecutorial quotas . I will get right on top of this, is it the policy of your office for u. S. Attorneys to use prosecutorial quotas, do you have any quotas systems in place . No. That is a method to your office, it is not policy . Correct, we do not have quotas. Would it be consistent with that when you have a prosecutors say he wants to prosecute at least 2000 people who are alleged to have committed a certain type of crime . I think you are referring to the january 6 question. Im just asking you, would that be consistent with your offices policy if somebody says we are going to get up to 2000 people on a particular crime, is that consistent with your policy . I think that was referring to a prediction for how many more cases would still be brought because the court asked how many more people have we were looking at upwards of 2000, we have 1200 more that we think we are going to get, so you d