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the military personnel subcommittee will come to order. the hearing today is to discuss a very important issue and one that hopefully we ll get some important answers to, this issue could not be more urgent. three weeks ago, a new york times article revealed that the fbi had arrested several members of an organization called the base, a dangerous white supremacist group. they aren t your parents neo-nazis, the base is an acceleration asked pagan aesthetic and group whose name speaks to the admiration for al-qaeda and isis. they hate jews and african americans, but they don t like president trump or the united states either. their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the united states. triggering societal collapse maybe a sick fantasy but the reality is that domestic terror has claimed more lives than international terror since 9/11. last week fbi director wray told the judiciary committee that he was, quote, elevated, racially motivated violent extr ....
office of the undersecretary of deps 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 rat, the naval criminal investigateive services and mr. robert grabolski of afsoi, u.s. air force, office of special investigations. mr. reid, we ll 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 committee s support for the department. if you would allow, madam chair, i represent the background investigation piece of this process and i would like ms. miller to begin and i ll come back. it s the front end and then we ll go through the military departments. thank you. that s appropriate. ms. miller? good afternoon, madam chair, ranking member kelly and members of the subcommittee. i m stephanie miller. i m director under the secr ....
forward. the hearing will come to order once again. i d 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 deps 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 rat, the naval criminal investigateive services and mr. robert grabolski of afsoi, u.s. air force, office of special investigations. mr. reid, we ll 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 committee s support for the department. if you would allow, madam chair, i represent the background investigation piece of this process and i would like m ....
the hearing will come to order. the hearing is to discuss a very important issue and one that hopefully will get some important answers to. this issue could not be more urgent. a dangerous white supremacist group called the base was arrested. they aren t your parents neo nazis. they are paganistic, anarcic group. they hate jews and african-americans but they don t like president trump or the united states either. their goal is to use terrorism to start a race war and collapse the united states. it s claimed more lives than international terror since 9/11. last week fbi director wray told the sjudiciary committee he was elevated, rationally motivated, violent extremism to a national threat priority. the same ban with home grown violent extremism and isis. unkwoets. our enemy, especially russia exploit these racial tensions to divide and weaken american society. the head of the base lives in russia. russia likely supports white supreme assist groups in the united states ....