"One only needs to look to #China's pernicious approach most recently on #HongKong & what they're doing to restrict civil rights" @INDOPACOM's Adm Philip Davidson tells reporters
"That's a tragic example of what can happen when an unchecked authoritarian gvt silences a ppltn"
"The #UnitedStates does not seek conflict nor do we seek to contain #China" per @INDOPACOM's Davidson "We're doing everything we can...to prevent conflict"
"But part of that calculus is that we've got to be ready to fight to win if we're called upon"
"We remain aware that we can certainly lose without fighting" per Adm Davidson "So a deterrent approach is critically important..."
"Aggressive actions&provocations...an element of what I observed to be a broader diplomatic, economic & information set of actions to advance it's strategic aims" per @INDOPACOM's Davidson "I believe that #China has kept this in their quiver & they meant to roll it out in 2020"
"They're [#China] using the #COVID19, frankly, opportunistically to advance their strategies" per @INDOPACOM's Adm Davidson
Possible drawdown of US forces in #SouthKorea - @INDOPACOM's Adm Davidson says its about capabilities
"I look at those capabilities to make sure that we're trying to provide the advantages necessary to fight tonight & fight and win when it comes to the #DPRK"
"The administration & the secretary haven't given me any orders to change any of that posture" per Adm Davidson
"The secretary's made plain that he's reviewing posture around the globe" per @INDOPACOM's Davidson "They have not ordered any change out here...The capabilities that need to be preserved there, for our warfighting needs, our ability to fight tonight, are going to be my priority"
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Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mubarak Bin 'Attash & Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi were charged in June 2008 & then again in May 2012 for their alleged roles in planning the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on #NewYork's World Trade Center & the Pentagon
JUST IN: US issues new National Counterintelligence Strategy
Updated strategy, signed by @POTUS Thursday, based on 3 pillars, per @NCSCgov:
-outmaneuver/constrain foreign intelligence entities
-protect US strategic advantages
-invest in the future
"Foreign intelligence and security services & their proxies persist in seeking to acquire our most
sensitive information, technology, and intellectual property" per @POTUS in the just-released strategy
"Non-state actors are following suit"
Foreign intelligence entities "also seeking to take advantage of the proliferation of commercially available tools to conduct surveillance; collect vast amounts of previously unavailable personal data;
& position themselves to disrupt our infrastructure..." per @POTUS
Some nuggets from @FBI Dir. Christopher Wray's appearance Tuesday before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies...
#ArtificialIntelligence & #Election2024-"We are, of course, seeing & I've been warning about this for some time, the role of AI to enhance efforts that our foreign adversaries have already been engaged in" per @FBI's Wray
"It's not that it [#ArtificialIntelligence] changes fundamentally what it is our adversaries want to do...it allows them to amplify to do it, to make it more sophisticated, more deceptive, cheaper, faster" per @FBI's Wray
HAPPENING NOW - US intelligence chiefs testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee:
@ODNIgov Dir Avril Haines
@CIA Dir William Burns
@FBI Dir Christoper Wray
@NSAGov Dir Gen Timothy Haugh
@DefenseIntel Dir LtGen Jeffrey Krause
@StateDept Asst Sec for Intel Brett Holmgren
Noting that the current era is as challenging as ever, with a wide variety of threats, Senate Intelligence Committee Chair @MarkWarner calls for "redefining what we think of" when it comes to national security
@MarkWarner "We are no even seeing the possibility of foreign adversaries weaponizing space" in ways that could be detrimental to US way of life, per @MarkWarner
NEW: @FBI joins White House, Senate intelligence committee chair in sounding alarm about foreign interference in #Election2024
"This election cycle, the US will face more adversaries, moving at a faster pace & enabled by new technology
per Dir Christopher Wray at @INSAlliance
#ArtificialIntelligence advances "lowering the barrier to entry-making it easier for both more & less-sophisticated foreign adversaries to engage in malign influence" per @FBI's Wray
"Making foreign influence efforts by players old and&new more realistic & difficult to detect"
@FBI Where are US adversaries focused?
“The attack surface for the bad guys is the private sector” per @FBI's Wray "The intelligence that we need is in the hands of the private sector, often”