"We are actually elevating & taking steps to not only speak out publicly but top certainly take action...as we have from #Russia as well" per @PressSec
"We are not holding back. We are not allowing any economic circumstance or consideration to prevent us from taking actions where warranted" per @PressSec
"We reserve the options to take additional actions....this is not the conclusion" w/response to #China#Russia hackers
"Working in partnership, working in coordination & working together is a stronger way to approach malicious #cyber activity" per @PressSec, who adds US could also take action aline
39 detainees remain, 10 eligible for transfer, she adds
#HavanaSyndrome - "We still don't know the cause of these incidents or whether they constitute an attack of some kind by a foreign actor" per @PressSec, adding it is area of ongoing intel review & an "active inquiry"
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"Ft. Lee is just an initial location" he says, adding other US locations could be considered
#Afghan#SIV applicants expected to be at Fort Lee for just "several days or so" per @PentagonPresSec, noting they are in the very final stages of the process & will quickly head to resettlement
"They will not be there for very long - just several days" per @PentagonPresSec
45yo Ian Rogers & 37yo Jarrod Copeland "planned to use incendiary devices to attack their targets & hoped their attacks would prompt a movement" per @TheJusticeDept
Copeland, Rogers "used multiple messaging applications & discussed the attacks on numerous occasions" per @TheJusticeDept
“After the 20th we go to war” Rogers wrote, an apparent reference to launching the attack after the presidential inauguration
Copeland, Rogers also "sought support from an anti-government militia group" per @TheJusticeDept
Officials say Copeland also communicated w/a leader of a militia group after Rogers was arrested, who advised him to destroy evidence of the encrypted communications...
NEW: #Iran-based hackers known as "Tortoiseshell" targeted US military, defense companies in US, #Britain, #Europe per @Facebook
"This group used various malicious tactics to identify its targets & infect their devices with malware to enable espionage" about.fb.com/news/2021/07/t…
"This activity had the hallmarks of a well-resourced & persistent operation, while relying on relatively strong operational security measures to hide who’s behind it" per @Facebook
Same day @DHSgov issues updated terrorism advisory abt the threat from domestic terrorists - @FBI, DHS release "Strategic Intelligence Assessment & Data on Domestic Terrorism" report
For the most recent period, FY 2019, @FBI@DHSgov assessed "RMVEs [Racially or Ethnically Motivated Violent Extremists], primarily those advocating for the superiority of the white race, likely would continue to be the most lethal DVE threat to the Homeland"
"Our agencies had high confidence in this assessment based on the demonstrated capability of #RMVEs in 2019 to select weapons & targets to conduct attacks, & the effectiveness of online RMVE messaging calling for increased violence" per @FBI@DHSgov
According to the indictment, #Russia intelligence 1st contacted Debbins in 1996, learning he was ROTC & planned to serve in the US military though his political opinions were "pro-Russian & anti-American"
Then, in October 1997 meeting, #Russia|n intel agents gave Debbins the code name "Ikar Lesnikov" while Debbins signed a document "stating he wanted to 'serve Russia'"