In a moderated conversation at @FIU today Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines said the intelligence community had completed a National Intelligence Estimate on climate
and would produce an unclassified version “in the coming weeks.”
and would produce an unclassified version “in the coming weeks.”
Climate is “quite relevant to our national security landscape,” DNI Haines said.
Asked about domestic violent extremism, Haines said “the line between domestic and international is collapsing, or has collapsed…it’s very challenging to present a threat picture that doesn’t take into account both what’s happening domestically and internationally.”
Haines: NCTC is helping DHS and FBI “see connections between what they’re looking at domestically and what we’re seeing internationally. I think there is a way to do that without us being perceived as really shifting towards domestic intelligence…"
On Afghanistan aftermath, Haines said while Russia, China and Pakistan “don’t share all of our interests, they do share a desire for stability in the region.”
“The Taliban has supported terrorism for quite some time … and one of the concerns will be the degree to which what’s happening in Afghanistan will... create greater opportunities for terrorist acts in Pakistan,” Haines said.
Haines: "I would not say China is on the decline...but at the same time, I think there are real challenges that China faces and we need to focus on those and understand them. And there are also opportunities that China faces and we have to understand those, too"
"One of the challenges for us, I think, is actually keeping it right sized, which means not making [China] 10 feet tall but also not under-estimating the challenges that we're going to be facing in this space," Haines said.
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