Chairman johnson good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, bell honorable christopher miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center, and honorable kenneth cuccinelli, senior official performing the duties of deputy secretary. This is an annual threat hearing. When i look at all the threats that this committee has considered and all the threats facing this nation, i think it is pretty interesting how many hearings we have held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for consent to have my written Opening Statement to be entered into the record. When you consider these threats, for example, i will just go down the list cyberattacks, ransomware, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned right now as we try to develop vaccines. But the hundreds of billions of dollars of Economic Loss due to intellectual
Among the people you have spoken to about the release of the incident report but not the incident report about the shooting . Joy, people were unsettled. They had more questions than they had yesterday. People want to know what were the exact circumstances under which Michael Brown died. The fact the ferguson pded pd did not release the officers name in question and waited until releasing the incident report which implicates Michael Brown in a robbery to release the name thats raised a lot of questions. People are questioning why, why, why family members have said assassinate Michael Browns character, the same day and same moment you release the officers name. Are they trying to distract the community from what the officer did and focus on what Michael Brown may have done inside that convenient store. People are unsettled. Its an active and engaging day. Again, the press conference this morning from Thomas Jackson raised more questions than answers. Hopefully the press conference withi
Two-and-a-half years after it was established, Nova Scotia’s Mass Casualty Commission has recommended sweeping changes to everything from gun control to mental health services, although there’s no guarantee any will ever be implemented.