Come to our military members. The threat we face is global. It moves at the speed of light. It is increasingly difficult to see. Ghost to the complex spiderweb of social media. We focus i tried to find those needles in our 50 state haystack who might be radicalizing and responding to this poison and even driving planning to travel. We have got all 50. That is no cause for celebration. Were working with our partners in state and local. A lot of folks think of the 50s and 60s and 70s it is alive and well. Their trend as to what matters. We are trying to prevent that. We are responsible for protecting children in this country, people from fraudsters, the ravages of drug dealing and violent crime. Folks all over again the work every single day. Cyber, the threats i mention increase in the comes at us through the internet. You mentioned the modern fbi and how it was born of the 20th century. 50 miles an hour. 60 miles an hour. We have are facing a vector change now. John dillinger couldnt do the threat we face through the internet. Moves at the speed of light. Everyone is nextdoor neighbors to everyone on the internet. All of our International Operations are growing our ability to be good in cyberspace to protect kids, fight fraud everything. People, training, technology and smart deployment. Most folks dont know about the fbi trains all the nations. We spent time there building the worlds greatest library of improvised explosive devices. The hardearned tax dollars have bought it and it is worth the money. Compare the forensics of that and symbols we have collected in an operation that is centered in alabama. Samples we have collected in an operation that is centered in alabama. Local partners are central to everything we do. Ive been to all of the field offices to build relationships. I do something else, which i think every member of a Law Enforcement family she do good when should do. When someone is killed, i make a call. I make too many calls. Two yesterday. Totally different circumstances. Wisconsin and california. They were all murdered by thugs. They didnt deserve that. They left behind families. It leaves me today with a heavy heart. We are having important conversations. Im keen to make sure we have conversations and understand what is at stake in the sacrifices made in the men and women in Law Enforcement and the kind of people who sign up to do this sort of work, especially with the loss of life. It is on my mind. The 9 11 review commission, we told the world we have released pages. We declassified as much as he could. Their messages, you have done great, if not than enough. That is my message for the fbi. You are good. Never be satisfied with it. We are in progress of transforming capabilities. We still need to go farther. I pledge is i have got a. 5 years to go i will work every day to make this better. Thank you for your time. Representative culberson thank you. Keep officers in our prayers. Our hearts go out to the families of those three agents who lost their lives. It is something all of us keep in the forefront of our minds. The sacrifice in risk that all of you take in protecting us and the country from these incredibly complex threats. It is apparent in this new era the scale of the problem is huge. You have to rely on state and local authorities. It is a team effort. The genius of america is the founders envisioned a system of protecting lives and property. In the good hearts and common sense of individual americans. Help defend the country. Really the most Important Role. Our enemies will never be able to defeat the good hearts and good common sense of individual americans defending their families, homes, neighborhoods communities. Our local police and state officers and what they do is indispensable. I appreciate you mentioning it. The evolving threat we face is important motivation behind chairman wolfs amendment to create the 9 11 commission. It released unclassified report today. I appreciate you mentioning it in your opening testimony. One of the key recommendations they made that i know you have begun to do is the vitally Important Role that intelligence analysts play in the new world the fbi confronts. Could you talk a little bit more of the work that you are doing to implement the recommendations of the 9 11 commission to professionalize the intelligence analysts position within the fbi. Director comey thank you, mr. Chairman. They didnt have that service as recently as 13 years ago. We have made great progress, but transforming and creating a new element to the organization i believe is a generational project. I announced as soon as i started i would spend my decade pushing on that same change. It is about attracting great talent. It is about having the rest of the organization except them learn to work well together with them. We are doing that extremely well in some places. Im doing a bunch of different things. I making a personal priority site review a series of projects to drive that forward. I grade our leaders on it. Working hard to make sure people understand that this is something the fbi has oh ways done. This is about has always done. This is about making this Great Organization better. Make sure that i drive the integration between intelligence analysts and our operators and make it good everywhere in the United States. Representative culberson in making the analyst positions and moving them into Senior Management levels, making sure they are integrated with that into your Career Service and syria management positions. Director comey yes, sir. I created a separate intelligence branch. So the leader of the branch was much closer to me so i could see that person and drive it. To that role, i love him as a person. Dont like him as a concept. Several should be i have got talent coming up towards that. I dont know we have made material progress. Representative culberson also the panels recommendation that the fbi. A fiveyear plan. Do you agree with the concept . Director comey i have to give it more thought. I dont want to great plants just for the sake create plan s just for the sake of writing them. They do sit on the shelf. I look at where there is an overarching plan that ought to be written. I told him i would get back to them. I dont know if that makes sense. Representative culberson your information sharing with state and local Police Departments and law horsemen authorities is a good story Law Enforcement authorities is a good story. Talk to us about that. Director comey we have broken. A lot of the berries both technological and regulatory policy between we lean forward and push things out as a matter of reflex. It is great to hear. I ask about everywhere i go. How are we doing . The answer is, you are doing extremely well. We have seen a dramatic change. It is the right thing to do. It is practical and we need these folks. I would joint tasks our joint tasks force i believe i have a great marriage, that i believe i can be a better spouse. Director comey if a terrorist is an average american, using judgment to spot something peculiar, or a local Police Officer a sheriff having spotted something and it is their instincts tells them something is out of place in wrong, it is a good story here and frankly the entire 9 11 Commission Recommendation is encouraging to see the sum of what they have sent to congress is a good news story. You have done a good job. We appreciate that very much. Representative when i became ranking, one of my first visits was one of the places where you do joint operations looking for children and the innocence lost project. Even been able to rescue some 4300 children. As you know, there are thousands of children who are missing. Many are being exploited in all kinds of terrible circumstances. You have to prioritize. Your people. Your agents. Very important work going on there. You have to make decisions about whether someone is tracking whether a talk is being exploited or a terrorist whether a child is being exploited or a terrorist. How have you prioritize this under your leadership . Director comey thank you. The work involving kids is some of the most important and meaningful that we do. As the father of five, i have gone out and visited and met with folks who do this work. Told them there is nothing deeper than that work. Take care of yourselves. The way we approach it is i view the fbi like a safety and football. We have certain assigned coverages. Every game, every opponent that is our sensibility. Beyond that come and look to the primary line of defense. Where do you need us in this game . Should we play run support . Should we play deep . That will be different in every game against every opponent. I told my special agents in charge that in the cities in which operate, figure out where we can make it. Figure out where we are needed. We are a big agency, but we are small compared to stay and local Law Enforcement. Figure out where they need us to make a tackle. The review and prioritization. Threat review and prioritization. We figure out what rights in the u. S. We need to make a tackle on. In the lead delphia, where we need . In phoenix in philadelphia, where are we needed . In phoenix, where are we needed . Representative i dont think most americans know that thousands of children are missing every week in our country. Someend up country. Some end up exploited for years on the internet. One of the things you do is chase bank robbers. Somebody who is a special agent in charge says were going to go after inc. Robbers or this little girl bank robbers or this little girl who is being exploited. With limited resources i understand decisions about what is funded. I guess you would want to do it all. Director comey the way in which we make a decision is sit down and talk to people. Social service agencies. Law enforcement. Im the special agent in charge in philadelphia. Who is doing what to address that problem here . What is my rank . Where are my priorities . We do the same thing at the national level. What about things that could happen that the fbi might be able to help with . There are 304 that things. Given who else is helping with those bad things and the harm how would we rank them . Come up with a National Threat ranking of the threats we could face. It is imperfect, that it is the way we try to balance it. Representative the chairman mentioned interval. Interpol. The europeans have something magical going on. They could make an arrest of prosecutions throughout 28 countries with no extradition and none of these other issues. They have a system that we cannot do state to state. There is language and sovereignty issues and nationalities. It is something we could learn as we go forward. Thank you. Representative culberson german rogers. Chairman rogers. Representative rogers the graduation from investigating committed crimes and preparing evidence for prosecution, and then there is todays world where you are working to prevent events from leading to crime before it takes place. After terrorism counterterrorism try to prevent terrorism. Trying to keep spies away. The constant barrage of Cyber Threats foreign and domestic. Prevention rather than prosecution although there might be prosecution. That is a significant change. It has taken an effort on part of the fbi leadership to try to get it through that agencies about this new world in which we live in the mission do you agree with that . Director comey very much. The transformation that has happened in the fbi is one from a place where we were criticized with some justification. Something came in or a call came in. We responded. We investigated. To stepping back and having taught full people say, what are the that things going on here that might happen . How do we find out more so we can address it before it happens . That is the intelligence transformation. I say this with pride. I think we are the best in the world at finding stuff out. What were Getting Better at is what stuff do we need to find out . Who else needs to know . What might we not know . What are we missing . And be much more thoughtful. Connecting it. Representative rogers and the current world war, the terrorism violence, is a worldwide event. We are in a world war. We are up against a sophisticated enemy. The recruiting of foreign fighters into syria and iraq. We havent found a way yet in my opinion to effectively stop or even slow it down. It is more than Law Enforcement or an fbi mission. Just last week, we learned about a 47yearold air force veteran who tried to join isis. Before this apprehension there is a man who worked for number of american firms overseas, including a u. S. Defense firm in iraq from for whom performed avionics and u. S. Army aircraft. With had several stories like that that have it. Is there a magic bullet to try get at that problem . Director comey there isnt a magic bullet. It is about making sure we have sources where we need them to be. A capability in the online place space. Their former likely to hear about a guy thinking about leaving the Community American that community. The egyptians that spotted him when he was sent back from turkey alerted us and were able to lay hands on him. Representative rogers the Prescription Drug problem has been devastating in my part of the state and the country. Now that we are beginning to make a dent in closing them down in other places and finally getting the fda to change the formulation of drugs to make them nonabused, a lot of the country is shifting to heroin. The drug cartels in mexico im hearing are now getting into the hill business pill business. What can you tell us about that . Director comey i think you identified something that doesnt get the attention it deserves. We do a lot to support them. We see the mexican traffickers increasingly shifting to heroin. These to be brown hair went it used to be brown heroin. What is happening is it is supplanting pill abuse. It is cheaper. Easier to get. It is extraordinarily deadly. They dont realize it is andy 7 . 97 . Pure. I heard about it a lot. Now im hearing about it everywhere i go. For economic reasons, it is cheap. Were spending a lot of time trying to work with our partners to disrupt the traffickers and impose costs on them and drive the price up. Representative rogers still people are dying from pill abuse than car wrecks. Pills are still a big problem. Mr. Chairman, i have used my time. Representative culberson not at all. Representative rogers quickly Cyber Threats where are we . Director comey ciber is a feature of every threat the fbi is responsible for. I describe it as an evil layer. We have got state actors looking to break into our corporate systems for their economic or intelligence advantage. And we have got all manner of thugs and criminals and pedophiles down below. Our lives are there. My kids play on the internet. It is where we bank. Those who do harm to children or credit card information or our banks, that is where they come. There isnt a single cyber threat. It is the bad guys have shrunk the world. Belarus is next door to birmingham on the internet. Where working hard to shrink that. I can make the globe smaller so we could impose some cost. Everyone thinks it is a freebie. We have to impose costs on these people. Even if they are in pajamas they are afraid to break into americans like in steals what manner and to and steal what matters to us. Representative rogers russia . Director comey russia is a significant player, as is china obviously. Tewo huge operators. Represented a rogers representative rogers we have proof they are attacking our databases. Director comey yes. Represent a rogers representative rogers what are we doing . Director comey name it and shame it. Publicizing them on posters. There are stealing our ideas and innovation. And died in that moment do any good. You will never catch them. We have many flaws. We are humans. Never say never. People like to travel and get the kids educated in the u. S. Or europe. We are trying to impose costs. Name it. Call it out. Chinese are stealing our innovation, creativity, our jobs. In fact, it was this subcommittee men that many years ago who brought attention to a Foreign Government hacking into his files. He sort of let the way. Im not satisfied at all that we are doing whatever we can do to try to stop it. Thank you, mr. Director. Representative culberson it is of keen interest to us. Ive had a chance to come out here. Very impressive. What advice if you could tell the American Public out there listening some good basic rules to protect them . Good hygiene practices . Director comey folks should exercise the prudence of wonder drug electronics as they would wandering electronics as they would in real life. They lock their car. People should hate the same way on the internet. Should behave the same way on the internet. An email is a knock on your front door. Opening the attachment to an email is opening your front door hit you would never open your front door without looking through your people before seeing who is there. People open that attachment. Also, know where your children go to play. Folks need to know where are they going . Who are the interacting with . It is a kind of parenting and common sense we exercise in all parts of our life except when were sitting at the keyboard which makes no sense at all. Representative culberson i heard your wonderful analysts talk about with some of your cyber folks that 80 of protecting yourself against a cyber attack is good hygiene like washing your hands are some of the basic things you have mentioned to us. Thank you. Representative thank you for coming to testify before the subcommittee. Forensic science and technology to identify suspects and assist the successful prosecution of criminals. Last years Budget Hearing and brought up assaulted hit ass ault kits. They began discussions of the backlogs. And please that the Fbi Laboratory staff i met with may facilitate dakotas upload of dna profiles linked to the suspects of accused Sexual Assault crimes. Having said that, i want to add my thanks to frank wolf who really carried this and helped us see it entirely through. The appropriations bill includes the first point of the backlog in the Police Evidence rooms. And hopeful to see a program in fy16. I want you to know we are committed to this issu