On book tv on cspan2. Next, officials from the defense department, army, navy, and air force on the incidence of White Supremacy in the military. This portion of the hearing is an hour. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We have joined this afternoon by mr. Gary reid who is a director for defense intelligence, obviously the undersecretary of defense for intelligence, stefanie miller, director of accessions policy, office of the undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness and mr. Joe etheridge, chief criminal intelligence division, u. S. Army criminal investigation command and mr. Christopher mcmahon, National Security director, the naval criminal investigateive services, and mr. Robert grabolski of afsoi, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. We will begin with you. Thank you, madam chair, and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and the c
That hopefully will get some important answers to. This issue could not be more urgent. Three weeks ago the New York Times article revealed that the fbi arrested Seven Members of an Organization Called the dangerous White Supremacist Group. Neonazis, the base is an acceleration list agonistic, and Arctic Antarctic group whose name speaks to the admiration for al qaeda and isis. They hate jews and africanamericans but they dont like President Trump or the United States either. Their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the United States. Societal collapse, a sick fantasy but the reality is that domestic terror has claimed more lives than International Terror since 911. Lastly, fbi director, told the Judiciary Committee that he was elevated racially motivated and violent extremism, to a National Threats priority. That the same man with homegrown violent extremism and isis. Our enemies especially russia, exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken American Soci
Okay. The hearing will come to order once again. Id like to welcome our second panel. We are joined by mr. Garry reid, director for defense intelligence, office of the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And stephanie miller, director of expressions policy, office of the secretary of defense for personnel and readiness. Mr. Joe ethridge, chief criminal intelligence division, and mr. Christopher mcmahon, executive assistant director, National Security directorate the naval criminal Investigative Services, and finally, mr. Robert grabosky, u. S. Air force, office of special investigations. Mr. Reid, well begin with you. Thank you, madam chair and Ranking Member. On behalf of the entire team here, i would just like to convey our appreciation for your time and interest and for the committees support to the department in getting at this problem. If you would allow, madam chair, i represent the Background Investigation piece of this process, and in a logical order, i would like ms. M
Together to push something through that would work unless you cooperated . Each department obviously has its own bureaucracy and they all kind of operate in their own area. And yet when you are dealing with a critical issue like afghanistan or isis or other things, its really important to Work Together. You have the diplomatic arm of the government working with the defense arm of the government to be able to Work Together to get things accomplished. Frankly a big part of that is personalities that are involved. I just have to tell you secretary clinton and i because of our history working together we were able to Work Together because i said to my staff work with their office to get this done. And so we would set up conferences together. We would go to conferences. We went to the u. N. Together to meet with the defense officials from the different arab countries to try and develop their security capabilities. She was at the table. I was at the table. We went to australia working with t
Guest well, im waiting for the popes position to open up. [laughter] i enjoy being back home in carmel valley, as i said, i have a walnut ranch out there and its nice to be home working with a different set of nuts. Im enjoying that. Host almost all of your Life Experiences and your positions are enviable but you have done one thing im not sure everyone here would be jealous of. You have been roommates with senator schumer. Guest yeah, we were all kind of bachelors back here and our wives were back in the district, and we came back to washington and we were all kind of living separately, and George Miller had a house up on the hill, and George Miller eventually we were all friends and would good out to din. He said why dont we all kind of Stay Together . So we all moved into George Millers house and it was four congressmen, myself, George Miller, of course, our already, chuck schumer, and a guy named marty russo from illinois, and chuck sumer and i were on the bottom floor and he slept