ugoretz. given the scope of the apparent breach and the number of federal agencies affected and vulnerable to this attack was this a counterintelligence failure? >> drawing on my experience as an analyst i joined the fbi as the intelligence analyst november 2001 when the term intelligence failure became a part of the killer. i do understand the context of your question and the concern. based on that perspective, when i think of an intelligence failure, it's a few different things. the first failure of imagination a forward leaning analysis going beyond the fragmentary intelligence that we have at any point in time to forecast a specific threat or incident. second, a failure to share there are many different us government agencies that have pieces of the intelligence puzzle with cyberin the private sector has one of the biggest pieces of the puzzle with our adversaries are doing hagainst private networks. that's a second way is a failure to share what we have and thirdly a failure to connect th

it's ugoretz. >> i'm glad i asked. pronunciation on the first syllable. i will never make that mistake again. thank you all for your testimony and thank you for presenting in a way we understand. some people rush through this and thank you for making it almost understandable for a guy like me. i've been on this committee for a long time. and i have worked for years with my colleagues and includingli te ones here today who preceded me. we worked on federal data security in the breach notification legislation that wouldat require companies to set supplied come -- and protect sensitive information. we have had a hard time moving legislation that provides guidance for our protection and investigation and notification and one of the reasons is there are three or four committees of jurisdiction. theyco are up budget committees that have jurisdictions. it's hard to get on the same page but it's not so much about partisan issues by the jurisdiction issue which is unfortunate but i believe as we move to a more sophisticated cyber threat landscape we face increased