While using their power to exploit children. It now extends to a range of dangerous conspiracy theories. The f. B. I. Has assessed with high confidence that, quote, fringe political conspiracy theories, end quote, including qanon, again a quote, very likely to motivate some domestic extremists, wholely or in part to engage in criminal or violent activity and that these conspiracy theories very likely encouraged the targeting of specific people, place, and organizations thereby increasing the likelihood of violence against these targets. Close quote. As the members may know, the resolutions lead sponsor, representative malinowski, has himself faced threats from qanon supporters after he was falsely accused of lobbying to protect sexual predators. According to the combating Terrorism Center at the west Point Military academy. Again a quote, qanon is arguably no longer simply a fringe Conspiracy Theory but an ideology that has demonstrated its capacity to radicalize, to violence individua
Senior fellow and director of the Chinese Energy at the huston institution. Hudson institute. Hes a distinguished defense and policy advisor, a former highranking Government Official andauthor of numerous books and reports on china. I can tell you definitively that might has really changed the us militarys thinking. Back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings and he was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militaries view of the peoples republic ofchina. His book is a landmark book. His most recent book is the hundred year marathon, chinas secret strategy to replace america as a global superpower. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find inf
And id like to first introduce our panelists including myself. Doctor Michael Pillsbury is one of the foremost china experts in the world. Hes currently a senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. Hes a distinguished defense and policy advisor, former highranking governorofficial and author of numerous books and reports on china. I can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the us militarys thinking back some number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings and he was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militaries view of the peoples republic ofchina. His book is a landmark book. His most recent mark is focused hundred year map marathon, chinas hundred year strategy t
The steel dossier and foreign interference in u. S. Elections. This is three hours and 45 minutes. Thank you for coming and we will get started with of the the hearing. I want to thank mr. James comey, the former director of the fbi, for appearing today before the committee to talk with us about crossfire hurricane and anything else the committee would like to speak with him about. So, to give a little brief introduction of why we are here and what we are trying to accomplish, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act s a tool that has been around for a very long time for our Intelligence Community, the fbi, to make sure when Foreign Agents, terrorists or agents of a Foreign Government are in our country, they can be surveilled if they are doing things that are threatening to the National Security. I think this legislation goes all the way back t to the 70s, iand its been used a lot. Its been used in tariff cases when wee suspect someone of beig a terrorist under the Foreign Intelligen
Then with that, again, i thank the chairman and i now welcome our panel of witnesses. First, i would again like to welcome senator angus king, the former governor of maine, who served as cochair of this commission. Senator king currently sits on the Senate Armed Services committee and the committee on intelligence among others and has been a vocal leader on cybersecurity throughout his tenure. I welcome the senator here. Next, representative Mike Gallagher, cochair of the cyber Space Commission and current member of the house of representatives for the 8th district of wisconsin. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the house Armed Services committee and a former member of this committee. I also would like to welcome mr. Gallagher back to the committee again, back to congress after his paternity leave. I thank him for interrupting his paternity leave being with us. Again, congratulations on your daughter grace. In addition to being a huge packers fan, i know youre very proud as a father and for