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It’s been two years since the heads of America’s top intelligence agencies have been able to do so. But it’s not the first time They came to Congress to receive an update on global threats; They skipped 2020 amid tensions with former President Donald Trump. However, in Biden’s administration, the public hearing returned on Wednesday. His message: With widespread crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, the most serious threats to US national security are the most serious threats to US national security. in confusing and interconnected spectra that the intelligence network can only warn of.
At a public hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee and a corresponding report released Tuesday, administrators of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the CIA and the FBI presented evidence from their agencies. They pointed to cybersecurity and offensive piracy as a major issue in the SolarWinds attacks, which strongly attributed Russia. They also highlighted technological innovation, China’s progress, which threatens to undermine the security of U. S. infrastructure.
“The erosion of democracies is very genuine in many parts of the world. “
Director de la CIA William Burns
Directors also noted that where authoritarian governments use technical virtual control mechanisms, such as invasive surveillance tools, democracies find it difficult to emerge and endure. and kinetic arsenals, the United States faces a confusing geopolitical climate. Lawmakers and the intelligence network also raised the option that terrorist teams such as the Taliban and Al Qaeda could resurface after the planned U. S. exit from Afghanistan in September.
After two years of absence from these public hearings, a transition of force in the United States and the transformative effects of the pandemic, the report and the audience were boiling with anguish at the magnitude and extent of so many broad and aefatic threats.
“Over the next year, the Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the dangers inherent in maximum degrees of interdependence. And in the years to come, we the world will face more intense global cascading challenges, ranging from disease to climate change and disruption. caused by new technologies and currency crises,” Avril Haines, Director of ODNI, said in Congress. and the ability of establishments and systems to respond is most likely to grow and create a greater challenge. For the intelligence community, this concept requires us to broaden our definition of national security.
To complicate the challenge of new and emerging threats, the truth is that all old ones remain. Administrators marked updates on long-standing U. S. adversaries, as well as demanding global situations posed through militarized misinformation, attacks on electoral integrity, infrastructure security, and the development of national terrorism. in the United States and many discussions have returned to the issue of the decline of democratic influence.
“The challenge of the erosion of democracies is very genuine in many parts of the world: those that have established democracies and those where democratic governance is fragile,” CIA Director William Burns said. “This has something to do, I think, to every degree with questions about the ability of democratic governance to meet. The challenge is . . . help repair that faith.
This tension between words and deeds is evident in the overall risk report itself, as well as at the hearing. Senators and company administrators targeted the “blind spot” of the intelligence community. Intelligence officials said ICR would gain advantages from increased access to the national Internet, corporate netpainting signals, and more data on people’s virtual activities. The blind spot ‘also considers long-running debates about encryption and what the FBI calls the challenge of ‘darkness’. During the hearing, NSA Director Paul Nakasone lamented the time it took to unload court orders for some searches and said American adversaries were too aware of them. The time they have to work if they launch virtual attacks like hacking SolarWinds from U. S. entities.
Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) responded, however, that agencies could not even stumble upon an old series of violations in the federal networks of the SolarWinds campaign, even though the intelligence network has full access to monitor each and every component of the system. federal networks. .
“The hacking of nine federal agencies went unnoticed,” Wyden said. “So what I would like to see is that if we can all agree, before looking for new powers to monitor the home Internet, we all paint in combination: you, DHS, all agencies, so that we can do more to stumble upon hacking on our own network screens. “
The Threat Report also focused on the scrutiny not only of virtual civil liberties and the promises of confidentiality made through established democracies, but also of their ability to carry them out. dissidents, hounds and ethnic and devout minorities to expand their social reach.
“Authoritarian and intolerant regimes, on the other hand, are likely to involve adoption through democracies of these teams to justify their own repressive programs at home and their malicious influence abroad,” the report warns.
With so many disparate disorders that intelligence network paintings will have to simultaneously anticipate and monitor, reports and audiences on global threats still have a somewhat extensive and open quality, this is partly because on many issues, from U. S. foreign policy to pandemic response, netpainting apolitical intelligence paintings is just to provide information , not to take action or to shape politics. each and every day.