Id like to start today by bringing up acting assistant attorney general john cronan. Mr. Cronan supervises the criminals division more than 600 federal prosecutors who conduct prosecutions involving organized and transnational crime, Gang Violence and other crimes. Hell make a statement regarding ms13 and well take wes on this topic and ill be back after that to finish and answer questions on the news of the day. John . Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Again, my name is john cronan. I am the acting assistant attorney general of the Criminal Division of the department of justice. Before serving my current role i supervised the terrorism and International Narcotics unit of the u. S. Attorneys office for the Southern District of new york. Prior to that, i sfshed as an assistant United States attorney in new york where i prosecuted violent criminals and National Security defendants including osama bin ladens soninlaw and the attempted times square bomber. On the day that attorney general Je
Good morning, everybody. Normally we dont start until the Ranking Member is here but people have scheduling problems today and i consulted with the staff and i can go ahead without waiting. Thank you for being here. The topic of todays hearing involves the crisis thats growing and spreading in the communities across the nation. Existence in the 1980s and its made a reputation as a perpetrator of extreme and often gruesome violence. This organization has been dubbed the worlds most dangerous game and some say that it would be a terrorist organization. They kill high rate and control. Unfortunately, over the past two years, this terrifying model. So far this year theyve been publicly linked to dozens of highprofile killings, rapes and assaults across the country for a washington, d. C. To Houston Texas and a lot of other communities as well. There are many, many more that simply havent been reported. Let me give the Committee Just a few examples of this the brutality and the inhumanity.
Good morning, everybody. Normally we dont start until the Ranking Member is here but people have scheduling problems today and i consulted with the staff and i can go ahead without waiting. Thank you for being here. The topic of todays hearing involves the crisis thats growing and spreading in the communities across the nation. Existence in the 1980s and its made a reputation as a perpetrator of extreme and often gruesome violence. This organization has been dubbed the worlds most dangerous game and some say that it would be a terrorist organization. They kill high rate and control. Unfortunately, over the past two years, this terrifying model. So far this year theyve been publicly linked to dozens of highprofile killings, rapes and assaults across the country for a washington, d. C. To Houston Texas and a lot of other communities as well. There are many, many more that simply havent been reported. Let me give the Committee Just a few examples of this the brutality and the inhumanity.
Good morning, everybody. Normally we dont start until the Ranking Member is here but people have scheduling problems today and i consulted with the staff and i can go ahead without waiting. Thank you for being here. The topic of todays hearing involves the crisis thats growing and spreading in the communities across the nation. Existence in the 1980s and its made a reputation as a perpetrator of extreme and often gruesome violence. This organization has been dubbed the worlds most dangerous game and some say that it would be a terrorist organization. They kill high rate and control. Unfortunately, over the past two years, this terrifying model. So far this year theyve been publicly linked to dozens of highprofile killings, rapes and assaults across the country for a washington, d. C. To Houston Texas and a lot of other communities as well. There are many, many more that simply havent been reported. Let me give the Committee Just a few examples of this the brutality and the inhumanity.
So the strange thing is when you talk about legal opinion and i appreciate the former solicitor general and how well hes held in regard, but what you are saying is you pick an opinion and the opinion could be wrong, but your opinion is you dont ball under us. In fact, our oversight is irrelevant, that you dont have to answer questions. You dont have to produce documents that you can withhold care that has been a consist pattern in this administration. Yesterday the president of the United States asserted it for a new bright, inherent right not to deliver a political appointee who serves that interfaces with the dnc and the dccc on the Democratic National committee and the democratic congresscongress ional Committee Works directly with those had to plan the president s targeting of races to support democrats for their reelection on a partisan basis and we are not even not hear from the person because there is an inherent right not to produce out. So when you say here that you stand in t