Last night, Vice President elect mike pence took a break from the president ial Transition Team to attend a performance of Broadway Musical hamilton. When that show was over, one of the cast members addressed the Vice President elect in from of the audience. A portion of those remarks were then posted on twitter. [cheers and applause] you know, we have a guest in the audience this evening. Vice president elect pence, i out, but i walking hope you will stay for a few more moments. There is no need for booing, no need for booing. [indiscernible] vince, wedentelect welcome you, and we truly thank you for joining us here at hamilton an american musical. We, sir, are the diverse america who are alarmed and anxious that your new administration will not protect us [cheers and applause] ourefend us and uphold inalienable rights, but we truly hope that the show has inspired you to uphold our American Values and work on behalf of all of us. [cheers and applause] a wonderful american story told by a Diverse Group of men, women of different races, cultures, creeds, and orientations. Morning president elect donald trump responded to that incident with a tweet saying our wonderful future Vice President mike pence was arrested last night by the theater of by the cast of hamilton, cameras blazing. The should not happen. He went on to add the theater should always be a safe and special place. Because of hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, mike pence. Apologize tweeting, gerry connolly, the irony of them jumped amid an apology isnt lost on me or 62 million americans who opposed his campaign run on eight and division. Elected asald trump the next president , Melania Trump becomes the second foreignborn first lady since louisa adams. Learn more about the influence of president ial spouses with it is a first ladys. Companion to cspans wellregarded biography tv series and features interviews with 54 of the nations leading historians, biographies, and archival photos from their lives. Availableies is wherever you buy books, and now available in paperback. Testifying on capitol hill this week, James Clapper formally announced his resignation. And toified alongside gone officials about the collaboration between the Intelligence Community and the defense department. This is about an hour and 45 minutes. Mr. Nunes the committee will come to order. I would like to remind our members and our staff we are at the unclassified level for todays hearings. I am also to remind that concealing information from the committee is a crime punishable by law. Today we welcome the director of National IntelligenceJames Clapper, deputy secretary robert work, who will discuss the support that our Intelligence Community provides to our war fighters and the department of defense. Thank you for being here today. The United States faces grave security threats from terrorist threats to cyberattacks. The Intelligence Community provides our military with critical information across the full spectrum of conflict. When they do not integrate effectively we risk intelligence failures that put our war fighters lives at risk. They have failed to respond to the concerns on a range of Critical NationalSecurity Issues including those raised by the committee during the worldwide threats hearing this past february. The committee is alarmed at the threats of National Security as we documented in our august report. Investigation has found that the d. O. D. And the Facilities Planning has been plagued by significant flaws including disregard for coasteffective alternatives. The committee has not seen any meaningful corrective actions by the d. O. D. Or i. C. I thank the department of defense for their ongoing investigations into both of these issues. Once they are complete, i will invite the i. G. To present their findings in open session. If necessary, we may ask the three of you to return following the conclusion of those investigations. I also commend the work of the Government Accountability office which recently released a report finding that the department of defense did not follow best practices when conducting its joint intelligence analysis complex consolidation analysis of alternative processes. I would like to recognize the Ranking Member for any opening comments he would like to make. Mr. Schiff. Mr. Schiff thank you, mr. Chairman. Im trying to get used to this new committee and lap of luxury here in the ways of means. I thank your many years of service to the country. Director clapper, in particular, i want to thank you for honorably serving us since the 1960s first as an air force officer as director and undersecretary of defense and the last six years. You took a position that was still very much in the process of formation and gave it very substantive and effective content and we are very grateful for all you have done. You have exhibited sober judgment and put the fate of the nation first. I hope as you look back on your career, you dont lament your many appearances before us. We certainly dont. And there was a rumor out there that you might be asked to stay on a little bit longer than the transition and i hope you stay on four years longer, but thats probably the last thing you want to hear. \[laughter] deputy secretary work and deputy secretary, i want to thank you for your Extraordinary Service to the country and grateful to both of you and look forward to our continued Work Together and whatever plans come to you both down the road. As we near the end of the congress, now is an appropriate time to reflect on the values that save our work and how those manifest in the National Security domain. Our country is best served when we conduct ourselves worthy of the American People. This requires the commitment to intellectual honesty and respect for the rule of law and accept accountability for the mistakes and what we learned from them and avoid repeating them. We must all Work Together to solve problems on a nonpartisan basis. The Intelligence Community and at times the military operate in the shadows but no way diminishes our responsibility to assure that we act according to these principles and in fact the responsibility is very greater. At home we rely to be objective and honest about the challenges we face and that candor is what allows the most Senior Leaders to make hard choices about how to protect americans. Abroad as we engage in war fare to protect ourselves and allies and world stability, we expect you to comport with the rule of law. Even in the shadows, we must all act as if you are in the spotlight because you are. The world often sees what we are doing. The intelligence committees do our best to shine a light in a constructive way. The people expect that is responsive and transparency and open to the oversight committees. The committees act as a critical check on the most secret committees of the i. C. And d. O. D. And provide oversight and we hope sound judgment and either authorization or disapproval. Each of us must strike the right balance between protecting privacy and Civil Liberties and ensuring National Security. It is never clear and never a bright line. But it must be our goal in the i. C. And department of defense and here in congress. I look forward to a discussion about how the i. C. Can and does support the dipt of defense. We pursue our bipartisan oversight of the critical work you do now and into the future. I thank you, mr. Chairman and i yield back. Mr. Nunes we do have your Opening Statements for the record. I want to keep your Opening Statements to no more than five minutes because we have a lot of questions and we will have a series of votes and i want to get through those questions as possible. Who is going to start off. Director clapper. You are recognized for five minutes. Mr. Clapper chairman nunes, Ranking Member schiff, members of the committee and thanks to the Ranking Member for your very gracious comments. I submitted my letter of resignation last night which felt pretty good and i got 64 days left and i would have a hard time with my wife with anything past that. Thanks for having us to discuss the Intelligence Communitys support to the department of defense. Im joined by my friend and colleague, bob work and my partner undersecretary of defense for intelligence. To the two men whom i greatly admire. Well do our best to discuss as much as the i. C. Support to the department in this unclassified environment obviously noting some details may need to be followed up in a classified setting. I included a brief update of the challenges this committee knows well. In the interest of time, i think i will skip by those. You are well familiar with them. Just to as a stage setter for constant challenges that we face. As i said before this Committee Many times, our nation is facing a most diverse array of threats than i have seen in the 63 years and that is what makes this topic so important. Never before the tension community and the department of defense needs to work closely. We have a shared responsibility to keep our nation safe and secure. I have a long history of serving in the department and intelligence roles to include as the director of intelligence for three of the combatant commands for both d. I. A. And n. G. A. For nine years as deputy secretary of defense and Technical Intelligence centers and i served two combat tours during the Southeast Asia conflict. I experienced the department and n. I. C. s collaboration. Since the standup, the relationship has grown closer. When i first took over in 2007, i established a dual hat relationship with usdi. Its called the director of Defense Intelligence. And this position serves as a bridge to serve collaboration and information sharing between the intelligence sharing and d. O. D. And march sell, i must say has taken this arrangement to the level. Adopted the same approach. We learned the hard way and insular approaches to intelligence are not the way to operate. To penetrate those stove pipes one of the tools is joint duty where officers serve outside of their home agencies. This is integration at the most basic level persontoperson. The i. C. s policies not only mandates but seeks those who want to become a senior officer. 5,000 officers have completed joint duty assignments. This is stark contrast to my war where you saw civilian employees in the war zone. The members are serving shouldertoshoulder sharing the same risks and enduring the same circumstances. And more recent graphic example of that in my visit to kuwait last week. Assigned joint duty is one of the many ways we build strong bridges. I want to take note of the fact that secretary carter presented me with the department of defense Public Service award, the highest such award he can give. The award was not for me. I accepted it on behalf of the men and women of the Intelligence Community who work to support our missions. And award is a symbol of that commitment to mission and i thank the secretary for honoring us, the Intelligence Community. And mr. Chairman, if i may, i did want to comment specifically on the issue of integrity at centcom. Recent information that i thought would be useful to share with you. Since we have 2016 results of our survey within which reflected the 22 of centcom and analysts objective issues, this represents a decrease from 41 in 2015 and comparable to 16 who reported issues in 2014. Centcom j2 objectivity numbers are on par and slightly higher than 2016 i. C. Wide average of 17 . Also indicate that centcom j2 were more likely to seek assistance to resolve incidents. 60 experienced objectivity issues and sought assistance up from 42 . Those seeking assistance, 67 rated seniors centcom as satisfactory in protecting analytic products from deliberate distortion. I mention this only to make this this is a oneyear period but it does show a positive trend. And i would also comment that there has been a change in both the commander and the j2 and centcom and im not casting aspersions but i think a change has been a positive development. With that, ill stop and turn to secretary work. Mr. Nunes you are recognized for five minutes. Chairman nunes and Ranking Member schiff, its an honor to appear before you to discuss the support the department of defense has received from the Intelligence Community. As the chairman said, this is the unclassified hearing so it precludes me from getting into any specific details, so let me just state that the support we receive from the i. C. Community has been absolutely superb. Great to be here with the director of National Intelligence, jim clapper. Nobody no more qualified. March sell has been tasked by me to find your letter of resignation and lose it because we would like to see you stay as long as possible. But as jim gets ready to hang up his spurs, the secretary and i are exceedingly grateful to his tremendous contributions to the Intelligence Community and intelligence support to d. O. D. He knows better than anyone, the value of the d. O. D. s eight members that the i. C. Brings to the intelligence arena. And march sell is my battle body, the primary intelligence adviser to the secretary and me and responsible to jim in the role of the director for Defense Intelligence. This dualhat role was established and institutionalized when jim was the undersecretary of defense for intelligence and has been a smashing success in our opinion. I cant overstate the team that understands the war fighting experience is plugged in and appreciates the entire capabilities the i. C. Can bring to bear. We all understand and understand the importance of these relationships which is why i comment on them. Thanks to jim and march sell and the directors of the combat support agencies, the relationship in our view and the rest of the throo of the intelligence communities and d. O. D. Have never been better. I have worked in this business now for a little bit of 2 1 2 years and had the opportunity to work with jim and his principal deppies. Stephanie is one of the members along with the chairman of the joints joint chiefs of staff. These relationships and cooperation are absolutely crucial as we seek to allocate our intelligence sources to meet the challenges that jim spoke about around the world in fighting isil and other extremist groups and monitoring iraqs programs and ensuring iran does not develop further capability and keeping an eye on russia in the ukraine and scrutinizing chinas activities in the south china sea. The demands on the Intelligence Community are formidable and the i. C. Is working as best as they can and we would consider their job to be outstanding to try to apply scares intelligence resources across all of these challenges. Usdi and d. I. Rely on several joint forums where the fedges chiefs and the combatant support agencies, c. I. A. And d. N. I. Convene and these are include regular visits to our regional combatant commands. Participation in the afghan which we call the war fighting cig and all of these are designed to address the operational needs. We have 10 combatant commands and representatives on them. That is another indication of how close our relationship is and their robust presence and even in afghanistan, iraq, syria and other places worldwide especially in this zerosum budgeting environment speaks highly of the orientation of the entire i. C. So im very grateful to be here today and im grateful for the committees interest in this area and i look forward to your questions. Mr. Nunes deputy secretary, do you have an Opening Statement . I do not have a formal Opening Statement and would like to make two points. First as director clapper and deputy secretary work have indicated, i essentially have two reporting changes i look forward to touching on that in the questions and answers. And its just to echo the thanks that have been provided thanks to the team that i have been able to serve with on this side, the director and also to this committee. I suspect this will be my last opportunity to appear before you before the transitioning government in january. I at an early point in my career to serve as a staff member on this committee for three years, which was an opportunity to learn about the importance of oversight and the critical driver that oversight can be in ensuring that government functions effectively and i thank the committee to be able to do that and have a productive relationship. Mr. Nunes first, im going to start with you, and this is for all of you, are you familiar with the free online encyclopedia . Mr. Clapper in general i am. Mr. Nunes does the department of defense or the Intelligence Community edit pages on behalf of the u. S. Government . I cant speak on that. I know i personally never edited a page. Mr. Clapper i dont know off my head. I dont think so. But i dont know. I have no knowledge whether or not it happens or not, sir. Mr. Nune