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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Security and Global Threats with fbi director christopher ray, at National Counterterrorism director chris miller, the talk included Election Security, cyber campaigns from russia, iran and china, extremist or threatened domestic threats. This is 2 hours and 40 minutes. This hearing will come to order, thank our witnesses, the honorable christopher wray, director of the federal bureau of investigation, the honorable chris miller, director of the National Counterterrorism center and the honorable Ken Cuccinelli, senior official performing duties of the deputy secretary. This is the annual threat hearing. When you look at the threats, and interesting how many hearings you held on so many of these things. I want to ask for my Opening Statement to be entered into the record. If you consider these threats, down the list, cyberattacks, ransom, intellectual property theft, something we are concerned about if you try to develop a vaccine, hundreds of millions of dollars of Economic Loss due to
Still lots of questions swirling an tech. Does the turbulent in tech continue, do you think by the way, value has been leading lately and thats a story in and of itself yeah. You know, a whole host of folks said that would happen, eventually, scott. From tom lee to Larry Mcdonald and so forth i dont think the story is over for tech you and i talked about that monday i said i think that we are unlikely to test significantly lower in tech. Yet, here apple is back down on the lows of the last several months, scott. Ive noticed a lot of those value plays that you discussed, for instance, infrastructure plays in particular. Steel, mining, things like that. Getting lot of money flow, a mean a lot thats worth noting. To your point, thats partially why perhaps people are using tech as a source of funds. I dont know how long that lasts. I certainly am not betting that it lasts very long as far as tech being a wreck and value being where you want to be thats the way it is for the last several se
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