Its international, but its also big time national. I think youre characterization of it is correct, senator. Its a huge feature of our work. In all of our field offices, we work in 70some task forces to try to address it. We work internationally to try and address it, so its a big feature in our life. We are trying to make sure we send a message that there are huge costs to doing this in the United States. Were focused on the individuals. You allude to the challenge with internet sites. Thats a challenge for us. Obviously, we have a wonderful country with a First Amendment that protects peoples ability to create sites. Were trying to focus on the individuals who may be operating a site with purposes of trafficking and lock them up for a long period of time and were doing that all over the country. Have you had any success . Oh, yeah. We sure have. Could we learn more about that . Not now. Id appreciate sitting down with you. According to the Government Accountability office, the famous
Screeria nigeria. And hamas did right and wrong during last summers conflict in dpazgaza. Officials talk about combatting terrorism Cyber Attacks and Drug Trafficking. This runs an hour and 45 minutes. They will later testify about their agencies 2016 budget request. This morning, i want to begin by thanking the men and women of the fbi the Marshals Service, the dea and atf who work every day to protect this nation. We are indebted to them and grateful forever their service and sacrifice n particular, i want to express my condolences to the family of deputy u. S. Marshal josie wells who was killed in line of duty on tuesday while participating in a Fugitive Task force in baton rouge rouge, will a l. A. Deputy marshal wells was attached to the marshal Southern District office in mississippi and had dutifully volunteered for this recent task force. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and the entire Marshals Service community for their loss here. The constantly changing
Partners and how their actions decisions, capabilities might play in our assistance of their defense or how it may limit our ability, depending on what choices they have to make. Nato, for instance has a very detailed bmd plan for the intercept of missiles for nato territory and europe. What are other elements that the Nato Alliance can bring to bear fence an antagonist. They are a military alliance after all. They are not the eu. What sort of connections and relations with the eu, the economic deciders of europe need to be engendered in order to come up with an effective response. In the interleaving of these capabilities do they fall under the nato command structure or some other entity. The eu council of governments, unclear. Earlier we were talking about exchanging information. Frank mentioned that. How do you coordinate this with owe allies and partners. Some of us can be very sensitive. But some of it needs to be planned and thought of ahead of time. Do we need to extend the conc
Chemical or biological attack, a few recommendations for ensuring effectiveness would be, one, that the federal government must provide accurate and timely thread information to local . ; First Responders. 3o . Jrering the multitude of potential threats and certainly we still see budgetary constraints of local government, local First Responders need to know which threats they should prepare for. If groups are promoting violent extremism and publishing training materials on the internet or social media, the federal government should provide information about tactics and techniques which are being taught, again, in order for local entities and agencies to be prepared. The local joint Terrorism Task forces are working to build strong relationships with local Law Enforcement to help local fire and Emergency Medical Service departments to obtain this information. Chief, ill tell you what. I know you have lengthy testimony. Id like you to submit it as part of the record here and wed be pleas
Close what is a gap and prevent a known or suspected terrorists from buying a gun or explosive in this country. In 2009 attorney general holder expressed the Obama Administration support for the legislation. I introduced similar legislation last year. The question comes for the Law Enforcement element of the administration to come forward and be supportive of this because the National Rifle association, even opposes this. This is terrorists. We have people coming into this country meaning to do us harm, and they can go in and buy a weapon to carry it out. That is simply unacceptable. So i want to bring it to your attention you know. We have to come together and prevent this from happening. Your biggest concern is the lone wolf. The lone wolf can come in unarmed, he can buy explosives the gun. This must be stopped. Director comey thank you senator . Senator feinstein no comment director comey i have nothing intelligent to say about that. Im focused on the upper is a shuttle on the opera