mr. ruppersberger? >> we need to debate on what happened with edward snowden and the issues of privacy versus what the intelligence committee is doing for future attacks and steal the american people's information. i believe the public is concerned with the activities of the intelligence committee. those of us who work in the committee understand the nsa isn't breaking laws and there is more checks and balances in the country more so than any other country. we have a challenge to move forward. we have been working on the cyber-security (to promote cispa)- year after year we are witnessing the cyber threat slowly and steadily encircling us. we just we have -- we just had the target attack and the united states loses -- close to 400 billion dollars of trade secrets. that doesn't take into consideration destruction attacks when countries like iran or al qaeda can shutdown businesses and shows types of things. i want to ask you, general clapper, we have a long way to go. we have legislation that will be com

mr. ruppersberger for an opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i think the director of national intelligence, general clark, john brennan, director defense intelligence agency general michael flynn, james cole me and matt olsen, director of national characters and, thank you for being here today. this is an important hearing so we can communicate your constituents and america what the intelligence community is doing. about 2013 the -- a vital information necessary to promote the values of interests of america as well as to protect and defend it. they did so and its profound challenges not really a broad but at home, too. that in syria or boston the intelligence community has worked hard. this bastard intelligence community has had to work and missed the worst leaks of classified estimation in our countries history. make no mistake, when we hand over our classified information, our adversaries and enemies adjust accordingly. we know that this has happened already as a result of these leaks. terrorist networks like al qaeda and foreign countrie

mr. ruppersberger. the debatewe do have on what is happening here with respect to snowden, the issue of privacy versus what the intelligence community is doing to protect us from future attacks, from stealing information, from babel in the united states of america. i look forward to this debate the cubs right now in my opinion, i believe the public are concerned about the activit ies of the intelligence community. it is unfortunate because those of us who work in this community every day understand that the nsa is now breaking any laws, probably more checks and balances in our country than any other country between committees, between the justice department, between the courts, but we have a challenge to move forward. some of those things we have been working on, the bill that passed through the house overwhelmingly is an example. with the public does not understand at this point if that 80% of our network in the united states is controlled by the private sector, and we need the government, the intellig