Especially those of us in Law Enforcement thank you for joining us here today showing support and helping the secret Service Continue to bring attention to this critically important subject. Back in the 1990s the secret service have been involved in Threat Management embarked on a comprehensive study as to the thinking and behavior of persons who engage in violence against Public Officials and public figures. The results of the study said the foundation for how the agency currently conducts its own threat assessment and moreover in the wake of the report that followed back then it was too more broadly conduct research and deliver training and provide consultation and areas of threat assessment and whether they are endemic to the secret service mission. Since its inception, theyve conducted numerous studies on how to prevent mass attacks in public spaces, schoolbased violence, attacks on government buildings and highprofile targets. In a moment, im going to invite the chief up to provid
Thank you, cathie. Good morning, everyone. Thank you for being here. Earlier today, the secret service and our National Threat assessment center, or ntac, as we call it, briefed nearly 400 of our Strategic Partners on its most recent report entitled mass attacks in public space s mass attacks in public space p for the calendar year 2018. As we all know its a matter of grave concern to everyone and especially those of us in Law Enforcement. Im certainly grateful to dhs acting secretary mcaleenan joining us today, showing his support, the secret Service Continue to bring attention to this critically important sujt. Back in the 1990s the secret service which by that point had long been involved in threat investigations and Threat Management embarked on a comprehensive study as to the thinking and behavior of persons who engaged in violence against Public Officials or public figures. The results of that study set the foundation for how our agency currently conducts its own threat assessmen
Especially those of us in Law Enforcement thank you for joining us here today showing support and helping the secret Service Continue to bring attention to this critically important subject. Back in the 1990s the secret service have been involved in Threat Management embarked on a comprehensive study as to the thinking and behavior of persons who engage in violence against Public Officials and public figures. The results of the study said the foundation for how the agency currently conducts its own threat assessment and moreover in the wake of the report that followed back then it was too more broadly conduct research and deliver training and provide consultation and areas of threat assessment and whether they are endemic to the secret service mission. Since its inception, theyve conducted numerous studies on how to prevent mass attacks in public spaces, schoolbased violence, attacks on government buildings and highprofile targets. In a moment, im going to invite the chief up to provid
The director of the National Security agency, general paul nakasone, joined other National Security professionals to talk about the foreign Intelligence Surveillance act, and cybersecurity, in a discussion at the center for strategic and International Studies in washington, d. C. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. General, it is a real honor to be on the stage with you. For me, it is a personal treat. You became the director of the nsa and the commander of cybercom a little over five years ago. And before that, when i first had the pleasure of missing you when you are the head of cyber, you are the head of army cyber, he went from being a one star to a four star in just six years, an impressive sign of how wellregarded you are. I would like to use that fiveyear time period during your tenure at the nsa as the framework for our discussion this morning by looking at some of the extraordinary technological changes that have transpired over that period as well as a whirlwind of geopoli
Inspector general roth, you talked about the port added collection information sharing that resulted in Human Trafficking coming across our borders. I appreciate you keeping an eye on that and you know, everybody being aware of that. I have not yet received an answer for a letter ive written. We had i. C. E. Agent Taylor Johnson in one of our hearings involved in government whistleblowers and the retaliation against them which is really prevalent in the federal government. Its jaw dropping. So director soldana, id appreciate if you would respond to that because now apparently agent johnson has been terminated and the process hasnt really gone through office of special counsel, inspector general. Im really concerned about that will particular case. We have that letter and were preparing a response, sir. Again, the oversight of student viz sas. I will try if weve got to produce some legislationings to facilitate the computer system, the i. T. Systems to do this. Coming from the private s