On book tv on cspan2. Next, officials from the defense department, army, navy, and air force on the incidence of White Supremacy in the military. This portion of the hearing is an hour. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We have joined this afternoon by mr. Gary reid who is a director for defense intelligence, obviously the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, stefanie miller, director of accessions policy, office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and mr. Joe etheridge, chief criminal intelligence division, u. S. Army criminal investigation command and mr. Christopher mcmahon, National Security director, the naval criminal investigateive services, and mr. Robert grabolski of afsoi, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. We will begin with you. Thank you, madam chair, and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and the c
That hopefully will get some important answers to. This issue could not be more urgent. Three weeks ago the New York Times article revealed that the fbi arrested Seven Members of an Organization Called the dangerous White Supremacist Group. Neonazis, the base is an acceleration list agonistic, and Arctic Antarctic group whose name speaks to the admiration for al qaeda and isis. They hate jews and africanamericans but they dont like President Trump or the United States either. Their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States. Societal collapse, a sick fantasy but the reality is that domestic terror has claimed more lives than International Terror since 911. Lastly, fbi director, told the Judiciary Committee that he was elevated racially motivated and violent extremism, to a National Threats priority. That the same man with homegrown violent extremism and isis. Our enemies especially russia, exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken American Soci
Okay. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We are joined by mr. Garry reid, director for defense intelligence, office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And stephanie miller, director of expressions policy, office of the secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Mr. Joe ethridge, chief criminal intelligence division, and mr. Christopher mcmahon, executive assistant director, National Security directorate the naval criminal Investigative Services, and finally, mr. Robert grabosky, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. Mr. Reid, well begin with you. Thank you, madam chair and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would just like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and for the committees support to the department in getting at this problem. If you would allow, madam chair, i represent the Background Investigation piece of this process, and in a logical order, i would like ms. M
office of the undersecretary of deps for personnel and readiness and mr. joe etheridge, chief criminal intelligence division, u.s. army criminal investigation command and mr. christopher mcmahon, national security director rat, the naval criminal investigateive services and mr. robert grabolski of afsoi, u.s. air force, office of special investigations. mr. reid, we ll begin with you. thank you madam chair and ranking member. on behalf of the entire team here i would like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and the committee s support for the department. if you would allow, madam chair, i represent the background investigation piece of this process and i would like ms. miller to begin and i ll come back. it s the front end and then we ll go through the military departments. thank you. that s appropriate. ms. miller? good afternoon, madam chair, ranking member kelly and members of the subcommittee. i m stephanie miller. i m director under the secretary
forward. the hearing will come to order once again. i d like to welcome our second panel. we have joined this afternoon by mr. gary reid who is a director for defense intelligence, obviously the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, stefanie miller, director of accessions policy, office of the undersecretary of deps for personnel and readiness and mr. joe etheridge, chief criminal intelligence division, u.s. army criminal investigation command and mr. christopher mcmahon, national security director rat, the naval criminal investigateive services and mr. robert grabolski of afsoi, u.s. air force, office of special investigations. mr. reid, we ll begin with you. thank you madam chair and ranking member. on behalf of the entire team here i would like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and the committee s support for the department. if you would allow, madam chair, i represent the background investigation piece of this process and i would like ms. mil