, human intelligence and signals intelligence, you know, really is a vital part of the intelligence, you know, apparatus. >> another question from a stb at patrick henry college. china considers their national policies in lengthy timeframes. what do you consider the greatest area of growth that the intelligence community needs in terms of capabilities in the next ten years? >> well, i think in terms of how we spend our money, this is one of the things i think you and i talked about. one of the things that the director of national intelligence has, you know, a great amount of influence is, you know, control over the budgets of the national intelligence program and the military intelligence program. and so, you know, where to spend that money, in other words, you know, should it be on satellites, or should it be on, you know, other aspects within the intelligence community, that improve our ability to collect intelligence. and i think that what we've seen is when we talk about different types of information, human intelligence is always important. signals intelligence is always importa

that russian intelligence officer then gave it to his bosses in the russian intelligence agencies. and that presumably must have been very helpful to the russian intelligence allegations in en their concerted, contemporaneous efforts to target their attackso on our election to the maximum benefit of candidate donald trump. russian intelligence attacked us in 2016 to help the trump campaign win that election. we now know the trump campaign secretly gave their own data to russian intelligence in the middle of that attack, which again presumably helped what the russians were doing. as "the new york times" puts it in their new story on this that just posted tonight, quote, the revelation, made public in a treasury department document announcing new sanctions against russia, established for the first time that there was a direct pipeline from the trump campaign to russian spies at a time when the kremlin was engaged in a covert effort to sabotage the 2016 presidential election. having the polling data would have allowed russia to better understand the trump campaign he strategy includin

it was ordered by the intelligence community. it was looking at russia in terms of a hacking attack but it was looking at them also on a bunch of different fronts. he told the director that she needed to review all the intelligence and report to him on russia allegedly mounting that cyber attack on the u.s. last year, the solar winds, also their alleged chemical weapon assassination attempts. also those unbelievably inflammatory, outrageous reports at the kremlin had offered to pay cash bounties to fighters in afghanistan if they were to attack u.s. members there. also the issue of whether russia came back at our elections in 2020 to try to influence and undermine elections in 2020 after they did in 2016. biden assigned that wide range review to the intelligence on russia's activities. in his very first few days in office. and today, we learned the outcome of that, and it turns out to be a surprising mix. it seems to be kind of a transparent, interesting surprising set of data that they have returned. it came with a whole bunch o

committee -- intelligence committee. this is over two hours. >> if everybody could take their seats? good morning. i call this meeting to order. welcome to all of our witnesses, including the director of the cia, the director of the fbi, chris wray, the director of the national security agency, and the director of the defense intelligence agency. thank you for being here this morning and for representing the thousands of dedicated veterans in the american intelligence community. since 19 94, the senate intelligence committee has held in open, unclassified -- so the american people can hear directly from the heads of the intelligence agencies about various threats to our peace and prosperity. it is important that this hearing be conducted publicly and openly to ensure that americans have a good understanding from and entrusted, objective source of the challenges and the opportunities we face as a nation. last year, the director of national intelligence refused to appear. i am pleased that we are resuming this tradition an

it is important for the congress and the american people to hear from the leaders of our intelligence community and i want to thank you both for being here. i would also like to take the opportunity to thank the men and women under your leadership for their dedication and service to the country. this year's annual threat assessment of the director of national intelligence highlights the complexity of the current threat environment. the report finds that the united states and its partners face, quote, a diverse array of threats that are playing out amidst the global destruction involving from the covid-19 pandemic and against the backdrop of great power competition, disruptive effects and a change in climate. an increasing number of nonstate actors and rapidly evolving technology. the interconnected nature of these threats will drive how we resource and transform our tools and national power, not only military but also diplomatic, economic and informational. to respond to these complex security challenges, we need to do all of these things. the united states and its democratic allies a

a recent report from the director of national intelligence found that accelerating shifts in military power, economic growth, environmental conditions and technology as well as how divisions in governance models are likely to ratchet up divisions between china and a western coalition led by the united states. it is against this background china has been identified as a threat to the military heard we also must avoid the perception that china is 10 feet tall. i hope our witnesses will also describe the challenges facing china, including demographic, economic, and governmental, and how the united states and our network of allies and partners can take advantage of them. russia is utilizing a whole-of-government approach to accelerate competition and advance its interests, notably via disinformation campaigns, assassination attempts, espionage, and the use of mercenary groups in numerous countries around the world. i hope our witnesses will help us more fully understand the extent of russia's maligned actions as well as areas where our partners and allies would benefit from greater u.s. s

these include oversight of the entire intelligence community protecting civil liberties from intelligence agency abuses, a deep dive into the office of dni as well as homeland security office of intelligence and analysis. monitoring counterintelligence issues related to international terror groups and rogue nationstates and analyzing supply chain issues to china. when our nation's leaders don't pay proper attention to these issues and instead focus on the political opponents real threats to american national security do not evaporate to the contrary the enemies in a close attention to the domestic political affairs become emboldened and we end up with dangerous developments among rogue states. such as yesterday the taliban are becoming increasingly emboldened of that announcement of the arbitrary withdrawal deadline of forces in afghanistan rush aggressively threatening military action against ukraine and china undertaking increasingly provocations against taiwan. we have to see the world the way it is not the way we want it to be or what is convenient for political narratives. there is a

homeland security's offices of intelligence and analysis monitoring intelligence and counterintelligence issues related to international terror groups and rogue nationstates. and analyzing supply chain issues related to china. when our nation's leaders don't pay proper attention to these issues and instead focus on targeting their political opponents, real threats to american national security do not evaporate. to the contrary, our enemies pay close attention to our domestic clinical affairs become emboldened. we end up with dangerous developments among rogue states. such as, yesterday announced the taliban are becoming increasingly emboldened by the needless public announcement of an arbitrary withdrawal deadline from u.s. forces in afghanistan. russia aggressively reddening for their military action against ukraine. china undertaking menacing provocations against taiwan. we had to see the world the way it is, not the way we wanted to be. or what is convenient or preferred, political narratives. intelligence community has a crucial path of defending our national security from foreign th

is the organ of intelligence. so everything that you think about in the intelligence is in the neo- cortex. our vision and touch and hearing, all language with her spoken flag which written language musical language math linguist, any arts, you name it, that is in the nero cortex. now only mammals have the neocortex. as one of the distinctions of what makes the metal. and the humans particular large, so you can think about human intelligence is really related to the neocortex he attributes it has been an evolution history recently. my thousands of years ago but hundreds of millions of years ago, and explosively large in the human species this why we are smarter than the other animals basically. anil: there's something about the structure that is crucial to it and in your book, and also your thoughts which i had the pleasure for watching over the past two or three years, you mentioned neuroscientists like quite fondly. what did he say about the structure of neocortex and his ideas about it. in your words. jeff: joh

that intelligence is garnered through. methods that we want to keep secret we don't want to acknowledge that we've actually had intelligence to do. so that the mere fact that you have politicians taking action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat and it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence look the united states and russia are adults they they they they sent the big table they were big boys pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information there's no doubt in my mind that russia is actively involved in gathering intelligence against the united states using cyber means just like we're actively involved in gathering intelligence against russia normally you know we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive. it's dealing with a changing world changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of bei

intelligence. thank you for joining us. the intent of these new sanctions is to deter russia. you say these sanctions are not enough. what other actions do you think the biden administration needs to take? >> particularly in the cyber arena, there are certain things that sanction just aren't going to deter. if the russians think it's in their advantage to steal certain information, whether it's trade secrets or national security secrets, they're going to try. and we are just going to have to really harden our cyber defenses. if we're really, really good, we might detect in advance maybe, i don't know, 25, 50, even 75% of planned attacks by russia or china. probably a lot less, frankly. the rest are going to get through. and so we need to make sure that, first and foremost, our defenses are much stronger than they are today. >> these sanctions also reveal a new acknowledged, public listening between the trump campaign in 2016 and russia. the u.s. now designating konstantin kilimnik, which we already

marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear sized information as opposed to hard intelligence that the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they were big boys pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with a changing world a changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth in russia is. and has been a week of angry unrest in the u.s. state of minnesota foll

intelligence and its reputation as evidence the.in last year's elections the network claimed that moscow was trying to hurt joe biden's chances by spreading conspiracy theories about the now u.s. president i'm talking about russia attacking our election russia once again interfered in the race for the white house russia is indeed interfering in the 2020 election with that kind of a double standard it should come as no surprise that people's trust for c.n.n. is on the decline but we don't think that this is all the personal attacks just. makes this worse when you're caught red handed hiding the way you do business from your viewers that's one thing but accusing someone else for breaking the very rules you yourself were caught breaking well that's another it's a rinky dink 2 bit organization what do you want it c.n.n. that scare defends immunised from any responsibility because nobody takes them seriously and as far as project very close and james o'keefe god bless him but how many exposé these must be produced before something's done

." >> national intelligence officials testify on global threats facing the u.s., including russia's nuclear buildup and the growing threat of climate change. from the senate armed services committee, this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning. before i turn to our witnesses today, i would like to give my colleagues a preview. because of the uncertainty of the timing of the president's budget submission, the committee has made a difficult decision to delay the markup until july, in consultation with the senate ranking member. the chairman and military services will testify in june. we now have 23 nominations or intent to nominate, including three military combatant commanders and two nominees for the national nuclear security administration. getting these nominees confirmed as quickly as possible will require many hearings, including possible full committee hearings on wednesday. i asked everyone to be as patient and cooperative as possible while we perform this very necessary oversight duty. i'm breaking a bit from the tradition of the last several months. i would like to take a

that intelligence. the issue, sometimes -- i will give you a quick story. when i was a young agent, a senior agent came to me and said the president has been to this particular site numerous times. just because it worked last time does not mean it will work this time. you have to look at each individual event in a different lens, gather what is there. what has changed in the environment? what is going on at the time? basically, plan for the worst, hope for the best, so you have to have, again, that cultural change. looking at it through a different lens. each time the event is occurring is not the same. you have to be able to plan. plan for the worst, hope for the best. rep. scanlon: i took that approach on the sixth because i did not know if i would be able to leave that day. i am particularly interested in your conclusion that -- i think it was your conclusion -- the executive branch, secret service, intelligence tribes operations. is it the same with the capitol police? mr. bolton: not to the level o

in reviewing your reports, i'm most struck by the apparent failure in intelligence reports, intelligence gathering and analysis by the u.s. capitol leadership. your reports indicate that officials, uscp officials didn't have a consensus about what intelligence reports indicated specific known threats to the joint session of congress. at the outset you noted you are testifying before this committee and that we conduct oversight but we were also witnesses to what happened. as a layperson leading into january 6 six i was aware from seeing the social media of trump supporters in my region that they were organizing in large numbers to come to d.c. in response to the former president summons and that the planned violence. i screenshot of post that said bring your guns. i asked my office in advance the january 6 whether there were special precautions that we should take to travel to and from the capital on that day. my big question is why did the capitol police note? did they ignore evidence? can you describe overall the department's overall intelligence capabilities? >> their intelligence capa

intelligence has not confirmed to the bounty program. still, the u.s. >> we will not accept targeting of our u.s. personnel. this puts the burden on the russian government to explain their engagement. kimberly: the sanctions come just days after u.s. intelligence identified russia as one of the most serious threats to the u.s. and officials warn that sanctions may not be the only retaliation, suggesting clandestine actions may be yet to come. al jazeera, the white house. ♪ >> for more on this now, i joining by guests from boston , massachusetts, a former intelligence officer for the cia and in london, a former political advisor and cio foreign agency. and in moscow, correspondent for a news agency in russia. if i could start in boston, glenn, do these sanctions indicate the biden administration is going to take a very different approach to russia then we saw under the donald trump administration? >> absolutely that is the case. it is a return to a more traditional kind of relationship, tit-for-tat, a carrot and stick relationship between rivals, which i

intelligence agency, and give more of a total picture of what's going on within intelligence. so that was the big reform that was made. >> you also have talked in at least one speech that i know of about anticipatory self-defense as part of the context for making the decision to go into iraq. i really want to ask you, when you examine the iraq situation, and there was a discussion, did you look at other countries as well? because if you look at the list of justifications, you could put those on iran as well. and so why iraq rather than iran? and did you look at more than one country? >> yes. we looked -- iraq was sui generis in our view, it was unique. it was unique because we had been to war against saddam hussein in 1991. he signed an armistice. he was systematically violating that armistice. he found in 1991 to be one year from a crude nuclear device. he had used weapons of mass destruction and a nuclear weapon against his own people. the strengths against him were starting to break down, including the fact we were flying so-called no-fly zones to keep his air force on the

we're live as intelligence agency leaders prepare to testify to members of the senate intelligence committee on global threats. live coverage here on cspan three. >> the annual threat assessment describes an array of threats we are facing in the coming year, beginning with those emanating from key state actors and starting with china, which is an unparalleled priority for the intelligence community but we also look rat russia, iran and north korea in that context. china is a near competitor challenging the united states in multiple areas while pushing to revise global norms in ways that favor the chinese system. chinese employing a way to show its strengths. including its claims over disputed territory and assertions of sovereignty over taiwan. it also had substantial cyber capabilities if deployed at a minimum can cause localized disruptions to critical infrastructure inside the united states and while china has a threat to the united states, it's important to note it threatens the ability to complicate in the years ahead. we expect russia will continue to erode influences. while russia doe

capitol police's intelligence operations. was there, in your opinion, one single point or multiple points of failure with respect to the receipt and analysis of intelligence concerning january 6th? >> thank you, sir. i would say that there were multiple points of deficiencies and failures within the intelligence division. >> we're really tight on time. multiple points. last week you mentioned several i.g. recommendations made in 2019 like increasing staffing for the intelligence and interagency coordination division were not properly implemented in 2019. in fact, there were multiple previous recommendations your office discovered needed to be re-implemented after january 6th. is that correct? >> correct, sir. >> so, let's take a handful of recent incidents involving the capitol police, if we can. in june 2017, and in fact two of my republican colleagues on this committee were targeted at the congressional baseball practice shooting. did you receive an after-action report? >> yes, sir, i did. i received -- >> and how long did

services its military intelligence former g.r.u. and former 1st director of k.g.b. and now now on the hill to hear it it yes and so that's one is political the other is military and the political as yeah that look take into consideration political different things and could maybe think about the last important in russian foreign policy the military intelligence and we're talking right now most cases military intelligence and here not the way it wasn't delegates they do not they do not think and don't even have no ideas about the political situation they know the political situation is that nato including italy see an enemy and we should gather all the information we can get so that they don't happily political agenda run they're not running a political agenda they're getting information about their enemy well that does not seem to be the perception that we have in europe or let me go to mark america i mean many european countries nato in particular have been saying repeatedly in the past that the g.r.u. which is the main intelligenc