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Monday, May 10, 2021, at 3:00 p.m.: The House Administration Committee will hold a hearing titled, Oversight of the January 6th Attack: United States Capitol Police Threat Assessment and Counter-Surveillance Before and During the Attack. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Bolton, inspector general of the Capitol Police.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 9:30 a.m.: The Senate Armed Services Committee will hold a hearing on the nominations of Ronald Moultrie to be undersecretary of defense for intelligence and security and Michael McCord to be comptroller of the Defense Department.
Tuesday, May 11, 2021, at 10:00 a.m.: The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution will hold a hearing on ghost guns. The committee will hear testimony from Michael Harrison, commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department; Joshua Shapiro, attorney general of Pennsylvania; Nicholas Suplina, managing directo
There are ways for the Department of Defense to fight the information war, Lin told Congress. The Pentagon, he said, “is well positioned to address the cyber-enabled information warfare threat for at least one important segment of the US populace the US armed forces and their families.”
You can read Lin’s statement here or watch video of the House Armed Services Committee’s Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems subcommittee hearing.
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