I am a fan of this director and worked on the transition. Mr. Director, welcome. Its great to see you again. It all worked out. Thank you. The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman and is doing great work at the cia. I think what we want to do today with those joining in the audience and why extremist talk about the issues not just in the newspaper but some of the newspapers for the director of the cia and the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the media and you have to not only deal with the facts of how we are thinking about the National Security five, ten, 15 or 20 years now so we need to talk about some of those issues. There is a sense of dislocation in the world and that power itself is a shifting including the role of nonstate actors. Theres lots going on in the world so lets get into it. Mr. Director, the president gave his speech on october 13 reshaping u. S. Policy on iran to. Is iran in violation or what is the animating principle behind the
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
Senator john mccain chairs the Senate Armed Services committee. This is two hours, 20 minutes. Well, good morning. Committee meets today to receive testimony on the Government Strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyber space. To begin id liking to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues in our Cyber Security subcommittee tackthal critical challenge of cyber. Its a challenge growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident. Cyber attacks against our government system and infrastructure, data breaches that attempts to manipulate Public Opinion and attacks the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. And those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries both state and nonstate actors view the entire information domain as a space and across it theyre waging a new kind of war against us, a war invaucholving but extendi
, one. Of morning. The Committee Meets to receive testimony on the u. S. Government policy strategy and organization to protect our nation in cyberspace. To begin id like to thank senators rounds and nelson for their leadership on these issues and our Cyber Security subcommittee. This hearing builds upon the good work that they and their subcommittee have done to tackle the critical challenge of cyber. This is a challenge that is growing more dire and more complex. Not a week passes that we dont read about some disturbing new incident, Cyber Attacks against our Government Systems and Critical Infrastructure, data breaches back compromise Sensitive Information of our citizens and companies, attempts to manipulate Public Opinion through social media and of course attacks against the fundamentals of our democratic system and process. Those are just the ones that we know about. This is a totally new kind of threat as we all know. Our adversaries, both state and nonstate actors view the ent
The director is a soldier, lawyer, entrepreneur, congressman, it is doing great work at the cia and is doing great work with the cia. I think what we want today is talk about not just the issues of today that are in the newspaper, but some of the trends and issues you have to deal with as the director of the cia in the Intelligence Community. We often get captured by the immediate, and you obviously have to not only deal with that but deal with how we are thinking about our National Security five, 10, 15, 20 years out, so i want to make sure we talk about some of those issues. Theres no question there is a sense of dislocation in the world, a sense the map is shifting in some ways, that power itself is shifting, including with the role of nonstate actors. Major issues before north korea, with major policy shift the fall of the putative capital of isis, Chinas Communist Party event happening as we speak. Lets get into it. Mr. Director, First Talking about iran, the president gave his sp