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
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
Acting deputy Homeland Security secretary Ken Cuccinelli and the head of the National Counterterrorism center. The fbi director said at the hearing that the fbi has not seen widespread voter fraud. Wisconsin senator ron johnson chaired this two hour, 40 minute hearing. Good morning. This hearing will come to order. I want to first welcome and thank our witnesses, christopher wray, the director of the federal bureau of investigation, christopher miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism center, and kenneth cuccinelli, the senior official performing the duties of the deputy secretary. This is our annual threat hearing. When i take a look at all of the threats that this committee has considered and all of the threats facing this nation, i think its pretty interesting, you know, how many hearings weve held on so many of these things. Before i proceed, i guess i would ask for unanimous consent to have my written Opening Statement be entered in the recor record. If you consider t
Good afternoon everybody. I would like to begin by thanking my friend the Ranking Member for helping plan and hold this hearing today and i would like to thin thank the expert witnesses on the first panels. In the interest of time we are going to dispense with Opening Statements first of all thank you for this hearing. From the department of justice fbi Homeland Security as well as a separate panel of experts to speak about the Data Security threats in the nation. The title of this hearing in my view doesnt quite capture the nature and scope of the threats. Threat. The problem is bigger than beijing and broader than anyone in the industry. The nation faces an onslaught of cybercrime to b baby internet ce can be a co Complaint Center received 170,000 complaints leading to over 3. 5 billion in losses a 20 increase since just 2018. These threats come not just from criminals but from nation states russia, china, iran and north korea particularly have sanctioned Cyber Attacks against the en
This hearing today and i would like to thin thank the expert witnesses on the first panels. In the interest of time we are going to dispense with Opening Statements first of all thank you for this hearing. From the department of justice fbi Homeland Security as well as a separate panel of experts to speak about the Data Security threats in the nation. The title of this hearing in my view doesnt quite capture the nature and scope of the threats. Threat. The problem is bigger than beijing and broader than anyone in the industry. The nation faces an onslaught of cybercrime to b baby internet ce can be a co Complaint Center received 170,000 complaints leading to over 3. 5 billion in losses a 20 increase since just 2018. These threats come not just from criminals but from nation states russia, china, iran and north korea particularly have sanctioned Cyber Attacks against the enterprises. A lot more than our personal data is at risk. That doctors caby doctors can pe hospitals and government