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
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Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
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