We are working very hard to make sure that my criminal investigators, my counterintelligence investigators, my counterterrorism operators and all of our International Operations are growing our ability to be good in cyberspace. To protect kids to fight fraud to fight everything we are responsible we have to operate there. Thats the people, training, technology and spark deployment. I will mention one thing that most smokes most folks dont understand. We also spend time building the worlds greatest library of improvised explosive devices. Another thing the American People dont realize the hard earned tax dollars has bought and shortly. We have the bill dudley device is detonated or found anywhere in the world to compare the forensics of that, the tool marks the hairs, the fingerprints the thousands of other samples with collected in an operation centered in alabama alabama. Work that is hidden from the taxpayers not intentionally just doesnt get a lot of headlines but makes a big difference. I will close chairman Roger Mitchell state and local partners to the are essential to everything we do to cut into all 56 field offices and ive met with sheriffs in chiefs in all 56 to build those relationships. I do Something Else which i think every member of a family like Law Enforcement, should do when officers killed a lot of to i call the sheriff or the chief to express our condolences and offer help. I make way too many calls. I said three officers killed in this country to yesterday another one earlier this week. Totally different circumstances. United by the fact they were all murdered by funds and their people certain didnt deserve that and leave behind families but i mention it is because it leaves me today with a heavy heart and were having an important conversation in this country a special about race and policing which im huge fan of having but im team to make sure we have conversations about lawenforcement we understand what the stake and the sacrifices made by the men and women in Law Enforcement and kind people who sign up to do this sort of work and especially today with the loss of so much life just in the last 24 hours to its on my mind so i thought i would imagine a. I will close by thanking you for support. The 9 11 review commission told the world today, we released 129 pages of the report. We declassified as much as we possibly could and their message is you have done great its not good enough. That is exactly my message to the fbi. I said thats what it means to be worldclass. To know youre good and never, never be satisfied with it. We have made a lot of progress and transform our capabilities your we still need to go further. The American People deserve us to be even better than we are today. My pledge pledge is like a and f. Years ago, i will work every day to make us better. So thank you for your time. Thank you for your thank you, director comey. You mentioned us all to keep your officers in her purse. Are going to the families of those free agents who lost their lives. That is something that all of us either keep in the forefront of reminded the sacrifice, the risk that all of you take in protecting us and the country from these incredibly complex and very threats. Its also apparent in this new era the scale of the problem is a huge that you do have to rely on state and local authorities. It is a team effort and the genius of america is that the founders envisioned a system where protecting lives and property, police powers, is vested originally in the states. And and good hearts and commonsense of individual americans so theres also a vital role i think in individual americans to play in helping to defend the country. Its really the most Important Role quite unpleasant one thing our enemies will never be able to defeat is a good hearts, a goodthegood common sense of individual americans defending their communities the work that our local police and sheriffs and state Police Officers do is just indispensable and a partnership with you is vital and appreciate you very much making it to us today. And the evolving threat we face was important motivation of course behind chairman walls chairman walls a member to great the 9 11 nine 9 11 commission which releases unclassified, released its unclassified report today. As i mentioned at nice tim roemer and Bruce Hoffman and Bruce Hoffman for authors of the poor and appreciate you mentioned in your opening testimony. One of the key recommendations they made that a know you have already begun to do and want to ask you to elaborate on a little more is the vital Important Role that intelligence analysts play in the new world, the fbi now confronts. And could you talk over more about work you are doing to government the recommendation of the 9 11 9 11 commission to professionalize the intelligence analysts position within the fbi . Thank you, mr. Chairman. The fbi didnt have an Intelligence Career Service as recently as 13 years ago. And so we have made great progress but transform amortization creating an entirely new element of the organization i believe is a generational project. And so bob mueller spent a decade on. I announced as soon as i start i was in my decades pushing on that same change because its about attracting great chow training and equipping but its about having the rest of the organization accept them learn to work well together with them. And were doing that extremely well in some places. Other places not so much. So what im doing is a bunch of Different Things but im training our leaders. I want effective integration between operations and intelligence looks like am i making it personal priority so that ive Monthly Review a series of projects to drive that forward. I great our leaders on it and im working very hard to make sure that people understand this is something fbi has always done. Weve always been an intelligence business. This is about making us better. It isnt a threat to anyone. Its not making this Great Organization better. So it is one of my three personal priorities at the fbi to make sure that i tried that integration between intelligence, analyst and operate, particularly our special agents and make good everywhere in the United States. In particular in making the analyst positions moving them into Senior Management level making sure there integrated with, as far as possible into Senior Management positions. Yes, sir. One of the things i swore to this committee is to create a separate Intelligence Branch. So the leader was much closer to me so that i could see that person and drive it. Appointed a very special agent to the role that i said i loved him as a person, dont like him as a concept because were the fbi should be that role should be some who came up through the Intelligence Career Service. Ive got talent coming up towards that but i will know that we made progress in to the Intelligence Branch is led by an intelligence Careers Service professional. To talk to us also about depends recognition that the fbi about a five year plan like the defense department, a Strategic Plan and work to implement the recommendation, it do you agree with the concept . Thats what i told the commissioners i need to give more thought to. I dont want to create plans just for the sake of creating five year plans. Is that a lot of institutions where people spend time writing them and then they said on the show. We have all kinds of plants and hebrew. I need to figure where theres a missing overarching Strategic Plan that ought to be written covering a five year period. I told them i would get back to the on the. I dont yet whether that makes sense for me. The commission would issue we recognize and point out to the public for information sharing with state and local Police Departments and Law Enforcement authorities is a good news story. Talk to us all the more about that. That is a very good news story. We have a thing broken lots of berries both technological and regulatory policy between the culture has changed. We now Going Forward and push things out as a matter of reflex, just a great to hear. Asked about wherever i i go into United States, all 50 states because they are we doing to the shares energies. The answers youre doing string will. Weve seen a dramatic change. Its the right thing to do but its also the very practical reason we need these folks. Our joint Terrorism Task force is a bit redundant state and local lawenforcement to contribute their telcos but i think thats a good news story but as i said to folks look, ive a great marriage but i believe i can always find a way to be a better spouse. Weve relationship with state and local Law Enforcement. I want to continue to improve it if we can. Im confident the first time were going to spot someone is come here to do us harm from overseas will be an average american using their good judgment and their instincts to spot something peculiar and or local Police Officer or local sheriff having spotted something that is something to the instincts as a good Law Enforcement officer does them is out of place and wrong. So it is a good story a friend with the entire 9 11 commission recommendations, its very encouraging to see that the sum of what they have sent to congress in the on classic version and the classified version is a good news story for the fbi that youve done a good job in respond to 9 11, and we appreciate that very much. Let me recognize mr. Fattah. Thank you. When it became ranking on the subcommittee one of my first visits was without to the center for missing and exploited children which is one of the places where you to joint operations looking for children and innocence lost project which the committee has supported you now have been able to rescue some 430050 children 4350 children. There are thousands and children children missing. Many of them are being exploited at all kinds of trouble, circumstances. As you as the director you have to prioritize what are you going to place you said your greatest resources your people your agent. Ive also been to the joint terrorism screening center, very important work going on there. You have to make these decisions about whether someone is tracking down a child whos been exploited where the sum is looking chasing down a terrorist and so on. Could you just share with us as youre working through these issues how you have prioritized this under your leadership . Thank you, mr. Fattah. The work involving kids by the way is the most important and meaningful things we do. As a father of five ive gone out and visited nick amick. If i met with all of my folks who do this work and told them theres nothing with deeper moral content and network the network and want you to take care of yourselves because i work it eats my people. The way we approach it generally is is that the only metaphor us not a Football Player but im a football fan. I view the fbi like a safety and health. With certain assigned coverages. Counterterrorism, Counter Intelligence nonnegotiable every game can be, every opponent thats our responsibility. But beyond that i want to do is look for the primary line of defense and say where do you need us in this game . Unidas in the flats, over the middle she would play run runcible should we play deep . That would be different in every game against every opponent. The way the metaphor works as i told my special agents in charge is in a season which offered figure out where we can make a tackle. I do want to jump on file for people have been tackled or id want to be in the back but they get where we are needed. We are a big agency but we are small compared to state and local enforcement. Figure out where the need is to make a tackle. That is institutional is a process we called for review and prioritization. It is a very disciplined and very, very complicated process. We figure out what threats in the United States we are needed to make a tackled in philadelphia where we needed, in need it, in phoenix, in birmingham where we need it. To come up with an annual list. You mentioned the taxpayer may not know about the explosive bomb detection training you do in alabama. I dont think most veterans have any idea the thousands of children go missing every week in our country. Some of them end up in circumstances which they are exploited for years coming in on the internet and otherwise youre so if youve got coming to mention the officer who shot this week and killed in wisconsin a suspect in a bank robber to as you chase bank robbers, right . So somebody special agent in charge, says were going to go to bank robbers are we going to go after this little girl whos been exploited. And make very tough decisions with limited resources. Im just understand conflict to make decisions about what we are funding how youre making this decision. None of them none of them, i guess you want to do all that youve got to speak the way we make a decision is sit down and talk to people like ncmec, talk to social service agencies, talk to Law Enforcement is it okay to on the special agent in charge in philadelphia. To be doing with to address that problem here . Given that where would i rank it in my priorities like impressed by resources against it according to its on the priority level. Which is the same thing at the National Level in washington we sentencing what are the bad things that happen in the United States that the fbi might be of help with . There are 304 bad things and the we said okay given who else is helping with those bad things, and the harm that flows from those bad things, how will we rank them . We do that and come up with a National Directive also threats we can face. Its imperfect but its way in which we try to balance it. We do the work youre talking but in every field office. The chairman mentioned ryan who runs into paul and his doing a terrific job. The europeans interpol. It means that something magical going on because they can make arrests and prosecutions throughout the 20th countries with no extradition, none of these other issues. They kind of have a system that we cant do state to state. In america which is interesting they have been able to jump over language and nationalities to work Law Enforcement in a much much seamless way. Its something we can learn i think as we go forward. Thank you very much. Thank you, mr. Chairman. Chairman rogers. The biggest change that ive seen in my experience as far as the fbi is concerned over the years has been the graduation from investigating already committed crimes and preparing evidence for prosecution. And then theres todays world where youre working more in preventing, trying to prevent events including crime before it takes place. Counterterrorism trying to prevent terrorism trying to keep spies away the constant barrage of Cyber Threats foreign and domestic, prevention rather than prosecution although it may eventually be prosecution. Thats a significant change. And its taken an effort on the part of the fbi leadership over these last few years to try to get it through the agencies had about this new world in which we live. An admission that the fbi more prevention than prosecution. Do you agree with that . Very much. The transformation that happen in the fbi is one from a place where we were criticized through some justification for work in our inbox. Something that came in for a call came in we responded to a we investigated it to stepping back and have a lot of thoughtful people say, so what other bad things that are going on that might happen and how do we find out more about them so we can address it before it happens . Thats the intelligence transformation. We have always been i am director but i say this with pride, i believe we are best in the world at finding things out. What we are getting much better at getting thoughtful about, so whats to be we need to find out and who else needs to know the stuff that we found out. And what might we not know, what stuff are we missing . Be much more thoughtful about that. Thats taking the intelligence talent a connecting it to the great talent in my special agents. Well, and the current world war, frankly the world terrorism violence is a worldwide event. So were in a world war and were up against a very sophisticated, capable enemy. The recruiting of foreign fighters into syria and iraq. Weve not found a way yet in my opinion, to effectively stop or even slow it down. And its more than a Law Enforcement from its more than an fbi mission but it certainly is an fbi mission. But just last week we learned about a 47 yearold air force veteran who tried to join isis. And before his apprehension he worked for number of american firms overseas and including a u. S. Defense firm in iraq for whom to perform avionics on u. S. Army aircraft. Weve had several stories like that that have appeared. Is there a magic bullet to try to get that kind of problem that fbi came to speak with there isnt a magic bullet. To us its about a fullcourt press making sure that we have sources will we need when we need them to be that we have the capability both the know have the Technical Capability to play in the online space with a meeting and recruiting and radicalizing, and that we are closely connected to stay local partners. I agree with the chairman they are far likely to hear about a guy thinking of going to see and were connecting with our intelligence pa