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Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence
5 February 2008
Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National
Intelligence
for the Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence
J. Michael McConnell, Director of National Intelligence
"You will see from the testimony that many of the key topics I touch on are not traditional 'national security' topics. Globalization has broadened the number of threats and challenges facing the United States. For example, as government, private sector, and personal activities continue to move to networked operations and our digital systems add ever more capabilities, our vulnerability to penetration and other hostile cyber actions grows. The nation, as I indicated last year, requires more from our Intelligence Community than ever before and consequently we need to do our business better, both internally, through greater collaboration across disciplines and externally, by engaging more of the expertise available outside the Intelligence Community..."
Can be found at: http://www.dni.gov/testimonies/20080205_testimony.pdf
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Edited on: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 14:17.52
Categories: Counter-Terrorism, Homeland Security, Intelligence