Earlier this week the Senate Intelligence committee to the nomination of david lally to serve as undersecretary for intelligence and analysis of the Homeland Security department. Hes a former assistant commissioner in the office of intelligence with the us customs and Border Protection. This is about an hour. I like to call the hearing to order, i like to welcome our witness today, david lally, President Trumps nomination to be the next undersecretary for intelligence and analyst of the department of Homeland Security. David, congratulations on your nomination. I like to take a moment to recognize the family contingent you have behind you today and thank your husband for his unwavering support. I think its also important to play tribute and thank your family for its honorable government service. These special agent at the fbi, your father jim glawe served in the korean war. Your brotherinlaw gerald bolinas served in desert storm and your sister doctor jane glawe works at the va and i thank all of you for your service to your country and your dedication and selfless service. Our goal in conducting this hearing is to enable the committee to consider mister glawes qualifications and to allow for a thoughtful deliberation by our members. It is already provided substantive written responses to more than 80 questions presented by the committee and its members. Today of course members will be able to ask additional questions of the nominee. David, let me warn you, when you see nobody beside mark and i, this is a good thing for a nominee. David comes to us with more than 24 years of National Security and Law Enforcement experience. He and started his career as a Houston Police officer before serving as a federal agent with the Us Postal Inspection Service and as a special agent with the fbi. In 2012 mister glawe was named the Deputy National intelligence manager of finance and transnational organized crime, before serving as chief Intelligence Officer for the United States customs and Border Protection office of intelligence. Mister glawe is supporting the National Security council as a special assistant to the president and senior director of Homeland Security. David, youve been asked to leave the department of Homeland Securitys intelligence and analysts component at a time when we are facing complex evolving and continuous threats in the homeland. The Intelligence Community is tracing threats from the state and nonstate actors to our cyber and Critical Infrastructure and we continue to debate the scope and scale of our Us Intelligence collection and legal authorities. Expect to hear a forceful advocate for the Intelligence Community on those discussions while maintaining a steadfast respect for the rule of law. As i mentioned to our nominees before this committee, i can assure you that the Senate Intelligence committee will continue to faithfully follow its charter and conduct vigorous and realtime oversight over every Intelligence Community entity. Its operations and its activities. We will ask difficult, probing questions of you and your staff and i expect honest, complete and timely responses. Tort Law Enforcement and intelligence experience prepare you well to support dhs and im hopeful you will look at the department with a fresh set of eyes and new perspective as you chart its course moving forward. I look forward to supporting your nomination and ensuring a consideration without delay. I want to thank you again for being here for your years of service to our country and i look forward to your testimony and i recognize the vicechairman for any comments you might have an image of german and welcome mister glawe and let me say i think this is the earliest Intelligence Committee meeting ive ever attended. And it shows my commitment to your appearance and the questions i have for you but because unlike the german who only lives close, i actually live back in my home state of virginia and when i was, i can assureyou when i was governor there was a lot less traffic. So congratulations on your nomination as the head of the office of intelligence and analysis. This position comes at a critical juncture between the analytic work of the Intelligence Community and information sharing role of the department of Homeland Security. Confirmed, your job will be to ensure the critical process pieces of information are delivered immediately throughout the department as opposed to your partners at federal, state and local Tribal Department agencies i believe that you have an understanding of this need , given your background at Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Community. I also appreciate the support youve received from my friend and former odi jim clapper and from Law Enforcement organizations representing the nations chiefs of police, county sheriffs and narcotics officers. Lets be clear, dhs, ina requires a strong leader. The Organizations Mission is to find engineers to evolve and mature, hence the creation of dhs over a decade ago. I remain concerned about the level of sharing with Law Enforcement. The large contracted workforce, and the whole Fusion Center concept. I have a Fusion Center in virginia. Conceptually it makes sense and im not certain its been implemented in the right way and i be thankful for your fresh fresh set of eyes to look at this. His job is never been easy and its not going to be easy going forward. If you are confirmed i will expect your full cooperation with this committee. I need an investigation into russias Cyber Attacks and interference into our president ial election and concerns about future meddling with our election and voting systems. Ive asked dhs to share with this Committee Even if we cannot reveal it publicly names of 21 states that the department testified last week against russian hackers. Ive written to and spoken with secretary kelly about this matter and as the Oversight Committee for all intelligence issues, this committee will have that information. I want to thank the chairman because this week chairman i sent a letter to all relevant state Election Officials asking that this information be made public. As i said last week i dont see how americans are made safer when they do not know which state election systems the russians potentially attacked and i particularly deal with this in my home state of virginia has major state elections this year. Thank you for appearing before the committee and i look forward to your testimony, thank you mister chairman. I can attest to the fact that this is the earliest he has ever been here. Id like to now recognize the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee to introduce our nominee senator grassley. Sensor grassley, thank you senator byrd and Ranking Member warner. Before i read three or four minute statements, id like to say that im proud to be here to introduce to the committee a person whose family and he has deep roots in iowa. And im glad to be here and i think if i could probably give one sentence which would repeat something you said as you talked about him because i will be repetitive at some of the things you said that you talked about his Honorable Service within government and his Public Service wellqualified to take this position. I would emphasize that as i say that im proud to recognize david glawe as the nominee for undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at dhs. He is a dedicated Public Servant with over 20 years of National Security and Law Enforcement experience, he currently serves on the National Security council as assistant to the president and senior director for Homeland Security. Prior to this, the nominee served as chief Intelligence Officer for the us customs and border section. Mister glawe is a former Police Officer, federal agent with both the Us Postal Inspection Service and fbi. In 2007, he served in iraq and africa on a joint fbi deployment. With the department of defense, following this tour he was a Senior Advisor at the National Counterterrorism center and in 2012 the nominee was named Deputy National intelligence manager for rex, finance and transnational organized crime where he oversaw and operated the intelligence communities Data Collections and analysis. In 2014 he began serving as National Security council on that counsel as a Senior Intelligence official. Responsible for implementing the president s strategy on transnational organized crime. In 2015 mister glawe was awarded the National Intelligence superior Service Medal for his extraordinary contribution to the us Intelligence Community and our nations security. The nominee is an iowa native as i said, still has family in iowa, hes a graduate of my all a matter of the university of Northern Iowa and also a graduate of harvard university, jfk school of government. He got started in Law Enforcement and advanced his impressive career with characteristically outstanding iowa work ethic. Hes chaired with me how much these things mean to him and i appreciate his commitment to putting them to work in this new position or our nation as he has several positions in the past. Mister glawes mother nancy is someone live crosshatched with for a long time in iowa as well, im proud to say. I know shes glad to be here with the rest of her family and his friends today, to celebrate with him and support him through this process. Thank you for holding this hearing and i urge you to support his nomination to fill this very important post. Thank you. Never grassley, thank you for that very thorough introduction and before i die then i would ask you to stand. I want to recognize your mother nancy and i didnt recognize her earlier when i recognized your dad. I also want to recognize even though he left the room, your daughter alexis who is just an absolute doll. If you will, raise your right hand and do you swear to tell the whole truth, nothing but the truth so help you god. So stated. David, you are now sworn in and before we moved to your statement, id like to ask you five standard questions that the committee poses to each nominee who appears before us. They just require a simple yes, sir no answer for the record. You agreed to pull the appear before the committee here or in other venues when invited . Confirmed, you agree to send officials from your office will beer before the committee and designate as staff when invited. You agree to provide documents or any other material requested by the committee in order for us to carry out its oversight and legislative responsibilities . Will you both ensure that your office and your staff provide such materials to the committee when requested. You agree to inform and fully briefed to the fullest extent possible all members of the committee of relevant intelligence activities rather than only the chair and vice chairman . Thank you very much. We will proceed to your opening statement. German burke, vice chairman warner, members of thecommittee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today, as the president s nominee , the department of Homeland Security, im honored to be nominated by President Trump and humbled to receive the support by secretary kelly, deputy secretary do and director of National Intelligence coats. Id like to thank senator grassley, born and raised in iowa ilearned at an early age the importance of civic duty. I never dreamed that one day i had the opportunity to meet an iowa legend. Thank you and i want to thank you again sensor grassley for the heartfelt introduction into 60 years of service to the country. Next i like to take a moment to recognize my family. Im grateful for their support, sacrifice in allowing me this opportunity. With me today are the bedrock of my life. My husband and partner barry gordon and special agent at the Washington Field office. And our two wonderful children, alexis and why it. Also here is my father, jim glawe was an army veteran drafted in the korean war. My mother nancy glawe, retired garden teacher from davenport iowa. And her husband her auto godliness, and also works for the Veterans Affairs in davenport. My motherinlaw beverly, lifelong volunteer in her community in eastern minnesota. I want to recognize my deceased fatherinlaw roger borst who did retired athletic coach who was here with us in spirit. But id also like to thank my family, friends and coworkers who supported me through my life, i would not have this opportunity without them. The Mission Statement of the hs is clear and correct. We will safeguard the american people, our homeland and our values. Dhs takes a complex involving threat environments and must work across federal government in concert with our state and local territorial and private sector partners. I have over 25 years in Law Enforcement and intelligence experience and confirmed i will apply that knowledge and Lessons Learned to drive intelligence and Operational Integration and share information, deliver unique analysis, identify vulnerabilities, position resources and mitigate threats. Ina has one of the broadest intelligence communities and meeting the very demands of the challenge, if confirmed i intend to focus the analytic capacity on areas where they are positioned to add value areas like travel, cyber, marine and mediation security. Inas greatest strength without question is the people, if confirmed it will be much harder to lead the homeland intelligence professional and ina as we endeavor to rep sandra kelleys vision by meeting the needs of the customers , integrating intelligence operations and making ina divers and focused and productive environment for the workforce. In closing id like to take a moment to recognize the Important RoleCongress Plays in the success of ina. I place to enable the committee to fill that role by keeping you fully informed and transparent on activities and developments. Mister chairman i will stop there and see the remainder of my comments for the record. Thank you for the opportunity to appear before you and i look forward to answer your questions. I think all of your family members for their Tremendous Service to the country and more importantly, to the security of this country. With that im going to turn to the vice chair for questions. Let me also recognize your family and its very impressive. I know theyve got to be all very proud of you. I want to start a couple questions in relation to our hearing last week and just kind of get your sense on this. I want to make in addition to the questions, will you commit as well to working with this committee as we go forward on our ongoing russia investigation to ensure as much access as possible that you can provide necessary materials and reports, products and other materials and make sure those are provided in this committee as quickly as possible . We understand vhs as a collaborative relationship with the states everyone to maintain that but to view the states as victims it almost feels as if the obligation of the state to come forward. We had people from indiana or wisconsin not one of them do but to have the Illinois State election official here who clearly indicated he was the victim of an attack but until the previous testimony of the dhs realize there were never told but it was russia was behind the attack like you to commit to work with us to read litigate 2016 we have to make sure the states are prepared so that can filter down to local Election Officials to take necessary precautions. Any thoughts on how to address this problem . Senator thank you for the question i apprec