Secu■ threats with the director of the cia william burns, fbi director christopher wr. They joined other leaders from the Intelligence Community to talk about the importance of continued suort forthe israelh, competition with china, and misinformation. At5z■4 this is about two hours and 15 minutes. Good afternoon. I would hearing to order and welcome to our witnesses. Director of National Intelligence avril haines,6 most americans will never see the work you do behindbe assuree members of this committee know its importance and we thank you for what you do to keep america safe. The threat environment today we have seen in recent years. We have seen nations backsliding from democratic institutions, authoritarian systems seeking to impose their will upon neighbors while looking to undermine systs been guarantor of stability and security since world war ii. And we see] competition around new technologies. We must ensure that our evolve to meet these new challenges, which means in my mi
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Exit selectivity it will come to order. This is a short hearing weve never had this combination of witnesses. A collection of expertise to help us make sense of what the chinese, and his partys doing in cyberspace and i can better defend ourselves. Our hats off we spent a lot of time on this committee debating or thinking about the question of whether xi jinping will make a move militarily against taiwan. And what would be a timeline for such a move . Obviously this is a nun on noble question people continue to debate it. In some meaningful sense i wonder if such an invasion or a preparation which would be incredibly costly if the Ranking Member very eloquently pointed out yesterday has already begun. The intelligence preparation of the battle space has already begun. Put differently for over 20 years they have been attacking us the government, defense Contractors Technology firms in cyberspace that is a fact. For a long time the attacks rubbing a valuable technology that was then used
Ethis committee will come t order. To help us understand what china is doing. We spend a lot of time on this committee debating whether xi jinping will make a move. This is a question that people continue to debate. I wonder if such an invasion or the preparation for such an invasion which would be incredibly costly as the Ranking Member very eloquently brought up yesterday has already begun. Put differently, the ccb has been attacking us. Government, our defense contractors, our Development Firms in cyber. And they had been robbing us on tech. And they used that to their military modernization. And they have been gathering information on people and companies. Our military records have been compromised. Mine is framed in my office, in my basement. According to the fbi, chinas vast Hacking Program is the Worlds Largest and theyve stolen more americans personal and business data than any other nation combined. But that wasnt enough for the ccv. In the past few years, our intelligence and
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