Current and future threats to the national security of the US

There was a hearing before the Senate Committee on Armed Services today discussing threats to U.S. The prepared statements for this hearing are available online.

The witnesses were:

• Vice Admiral John M. McConnell, USN (Ret.), Director of National Intelligence
• Lieutenant General Michael D. Maples, USA, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
• Dr. Thomas Fingar, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis, and
  Chairman, National Intelligence Council

Interestingly, while it is not listed on the committee web site, the Director of National Intelligence site has a transcript of today's hearing. This transcript does NOT contain the prepared statements from above, but does have the questions asked and answered today.

The annual threat assessment, included in the prepared statements, covers issues of security in countries from Iraq and Iran to India and Sudan.

Want to read more about the hearing? Check out the Washington Post's "Intelligence Officials Offer Grim Assessment of Security."

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