but nccic is very open. it's a very open information sharing portal that is there for no other reason than to share information. it's not there to do often support. it's not there to prosecute. it's not there to spy. it's there to provide threat information to the private sector. i would just say to anybody, extend the invitation to tour the nccic. it's impressive. i took my freshman member of my committee. i gave him a tour of nccic last week and i think it's good to educate the members. they came back very impressed with the operation. >> mr. chairman i'm recently retired from those our where i led all the business with the intelligence committee so i'm going to out myself little bit by saying snowden was in my group prior to that time period i was a lifelong intelligence officer. do you have a position on the programs that he exposed? not the ones against foreign intelligence but things that are referred to spying i wouldn't call it that but but, and you know what is your position if you think they should

a good job as always done by nccic. i don't normally do text, but in this case it is recommended that i do that. and then i will open it up to the questions and answers. i enjoy having live discussion and dialogue. as a nation, we are finally beginning to grasp the magnitude of the cyber challenges we face, and particularly as they start to hit home with north americans. last month, our country second largest health care provider anthem, announced it was a victim of cyber intrusion. the attackers gained access to a database containing sensitive records of 80 million individuals, including names birth dates, and social security numbers. nearly one in four americans may have been affected by that attack. this is a wake-up call that our cyber adversaries have the upper hand and the consequences will get worse if we fail to reverse the tide. today i want to discuss three issues with you. including the scope of the cyber threat our nation faces, the government's cyber defense role, particularly the department of homeland sec

the nccic is a primary civilian interface for exchanging cyberthreat information. fundraise good reason. it is not a cyberregulator. it is not looking to prosecute anyone. and it is not military or a spy agency. its sole purpose is to prevent and respond to cyberattacks against our public and private networks while aggressively protecting americans' prifecy. right now we are in a 9/11 -- pre-9/11 moment in cyberspace. in the same way legal barriers and turf wars kept us from connecting the dots before 9/11 the lack of cyberthreat information sharing makes us as vulnerable to an attack. companies are afraid to share because they do not feel they have the adequate legal protection to do so. h.r. 1731 removes those legal barriers and creates a safe harbor which will encourage companies to voluntarily exchange information about attacks against their networks. this will allow both the government and private sector to spot digital attacks earlier and keep malicious actors outside of our networks and away from information that americans expect to be defended. this bill al

and norman dorsen plate and a portal nccic starting the modern free speech clause by writing the aclu brief in brandenburg versus, the case that established that modern analytic parameters for a first amendment claim. and playing a major role in the aclu's victory in cohen versus california that established the privacy of the value of free speech in our legal culture. i applaud those cases and isolate the supreme court for making free speech the cornerstone of american law. so why then isn't my talk tonight and unqualified celebration of the emergence of a free speech and a free speech clause far more powerful than the scaled down version and norman and i invoked in the 20th century? it is i believe because the current judge made a version of the first amendment, powerful and important as it is has been severed from its deep textual and structural roots of madisonian democracy, should remember how judge made the first amendment really does. the text can't be read literally. the word congress tells us that say nothing of the fourth ward law, and the crucial term the freedom of, none of

if you look at the data, you have the nccic, which is a very well-regarded facility. f.b.i. has the ncjitf. the administration announced the cyberthreat intelligence integration center. and from the -- from our side of the legislative executive divide, this looks a lot like multiplicity and confusion. and when you consider the scope of the cyberthreat, the fact we have an agency like d.e.a. that's dedicated exclusively to narcotics trafficking and we have an agency like a.t.f. that's dedicated exclusive to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and bombs, and no specific dedication of a single agency to this rapidly emerging and very persistent and dangerous cyberthreat, i just think we have more work to do to set up the administrative structure that's going to allow us to be most effective doing this. i'd urge you to consider that and work with o.m.b. and d.o.j. to try to -- think five years ahead. every six months there is a new wrinkle in the administrative process for doing this and some new announcement is being made about some new agency or feature. i think we need a long-term str

if you look at the data, you have the nccic, which is a very well-regarded facility. f.b.i. has the ncjitf. the administration announced the cyberthreat intelligence integration center. and from the -- from our side of the legislative executive divide, this looks a lot like multiplicity and confusion. and when you consider the scope of the cyberthreat, the fact we have an agency like d.e.a. that's dedicated exclusively to narcotics trafficking and we have an agency like a.t.f. that's dedicated exclusive to alcohol, tobacco, firearms and bombs, and no specific dedication of a single agency to this rapidly emerging and very persistent and dangerous cyberthreat, i just think we have more work to do to set up the administrative structure that's going to allow us to be most effective doing this. i urge you to consider that and work with o.m.b. and d.o.j. to try to -- >> u.s. house is about to come into session so we're leaving this at this point. it continues live on c-span.org. and now live to the house floor. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] cappingscapp