taking steps that would lessen their inheritance. if they testify the russian president as an adversary and would likely harness new strategies to undermine the 202020 election. are reorganized in a way that we can possibly respond fast enough to a catastrophic attack? it is a very quickly evolving cloud of technological change. with the white house pulling back from syria, intelligence officials warned of the ability to reconstitute. isis is intent on researching, still commands thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. much of the testimony came back to china, and its long-term strategy to replace the u.s. as the economic superpower. we have economic espionage investigations, for example, just one piece of it, and virtually every one of our 56 field offices, and a number of those has probably doubled over
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.
secrets and technology and then pulling that together with china s super computing capabilities. here s chris wray. i think china at large is the most significant counter intelligence threat that we face. we have economic espionage investigations, for example, that s just one piece of it, in virtually one of every 56 feels offices. the number of those have doubled the last three or four years. almost all of them, not all of them, almost all of them lead back to china. we also heard in the testimony this morning the word aligned used in the context of china and also russia. in simple terms, this is about seeing evidence of sort of an early partnership or alliance starting to develop between these two countries. right now what i see officials call the mill to mill level.
taking steps to. intelligence officials testified the russian president is an adversary, who would likely harness new strategies to undermine the 2020 election. altered events or candidate s speech could be weaponized. are we organized in a way where we could possibly respond fast enough to a catastrophic deep fake attack? very quickly it is evolving, a flood of technological change. with the white house pulling back from syria, intelligence officials are worried about the ability to reconstitute. isis is intent on researching and still coming in thousands of fighters in iraq and syria. the majority leader went further. al qaeda, isis, and their affiliates and syria and afghanistan continue to pose serious threats to us here at home. much of the testimony came back to china, and its long-term strategy to replace the u.s. as the economic superpower. we have economic espionage
get the deal he wants. i think you heard the intelligence committee say this before. remember right after helsinki when they all came to the briefing that they all came to the white house to say how seriously they took a russian and other countries efforts to intervene in elections? they have been clinging the alarm bells for quite a while. i read the report as well, and i thought it was interesting how frequently russia and china were linked together as the same threat. it would ve been nice to see what percentage comes from china, what percentage from russia, because it is hard to determine which one is the greater threat. but historically speaking, what the u.s. has always tried to do is make sure that russia and china are not in cahoots together. it is way sometimes you are friendlier to china and russia knowing that when they work together, that is a combined adversary that is very, very difficult. we have economic espionage investigations, for example. that is just one piece