Actions and americas responss. S that is obviously an important topic, and also something that a lot of people, a lot of journalists and a lot of people in congress are talking about. So hopefully we will be able to shed some light in addition to a lot of noise which you will find elsewhere around town. This is a very distinguished group. I know that many of them if not most of you if not everybody, but i will introduce two members of the board. Chairman of the board of the center for the national interest, fourstar general, Charles Voigt who has a very distinguished experience including as deputy of navy in europe, and also in a Commission Ed panel on recommendations. They made recommendation before september 11th, and the recommendations widely advertised, but not necessarily forwarded. Well, it was not wide lly praised. And also a chairman of the board of the Agricultural Committee from kansas, and the committee on intelligence and a person with a strong Foreign Policy National Secu
Chaffetz argued about the issue. Let me go on to the russian thing. I understand the chairmans resistance on sources and methods, i get that. Myill like to introduce letter asking for a hearing on to the russian hacking. Secondly, i would like to enter into the record an fbi investigation regarding malicious cyber activity. They did a whole investigation on this. It is called grizzly steppe. I want to enter into the background the assessing of russian activities into u. S. Elections, the analytical process produced by the office of national intelligence. I would like to submit a worldwide threat assessment by james r. Clapper, director of national intelligence, february 9, 2016. So we have enough here, just with this. We have enough here to do an investigation, and this is just the stuff that is unclassified , that the Intelligence Community has put out. Will be gentleman yield . Yes. Two points. Number one, sources and methods are the sole jurisdiction of the Intelligence Community. N
Chaffetz argued about the issue. Let me go on to the russian thing. I understand the chairmans resistance on sources and methods, i get that. Myill like to introduce letter asking for a hearing on to the russian hacking. Secondly, i would like to enter into the record an fbi investigation regarding malicious cyber activity. They did a whole investigation on this. It is called grizzly steppe. I want to enter into the background the assessing of russian activities into u. S. Elections, the analytical process produced by the office of national intelligence. I would like to submit a worldwide threat assessment by james r. Clapper, director of national intelligence, february 9, 2016. So we have enough here, just with this. We have enough here to do an investigation, and this is just the stuff that is unclassified , that the Intelligence Community has put out. Will be gentleman yield . Yes. Two points. Number one, sources and methods are the sole jurisdiction of the Intelligence Community. N
Chaffetz argued about the issue. Let me go on to the russian thing. I understand the chairmans resistance on sources and methods, i get that. Myill like to introduce letter asking for a hearing on to the russian hacking. Secondly, i would like to enter into the record an fbi investigation regarding malicious cyber activity. They did a whole investigation on this. It is called grizzly steppe. I want to enter into the background the assessing of russian activities into u. S. Elections, the analytical process produced by the office of national intelligence. I would like to submit a worldwide threat assessment by james r. Clapper, director of national intelligence, february 9, 2016. So we have enough here, just with this. We have enough here to do an investigation, and this is just the stuff that is unclassified , that the Intelligence Community has put out. Will be gentleman yield . Yes. Two points. Number one, sources and methods are the sole jurisdiction of the Intelligence Community. N
Efficiency of federal employee background checks. The Oversight Reform Committee questioned office and management of budget officials to protect federal employees personal information. This hearing is about 2. 5 hours. Committee on oversight government reform will come to order and without objection, the chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. Appreciate you all being here. We have very important hearing. We have a number of members that im sure will be here, but it will be late. There is the National Prayer breakfast and getting across town at this point of the day is a difficult task. Nevertheless, glad to have you here and look forward to this important hearing. Two years ago, the office of Personnel Management suffered one of the most damaging data breaches in the history of the federal government. This went on for some time and we still, there are still Additional Details that need to be learned. But the counterintelligence value of the data that was stolen will last