Hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security “Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland”

Hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security “Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland”

 Hearing before the House Committee on Homeland Security
“Global Terrorism: Threats to the Homeland”

Mr. Russell Travers

Acting Director, National Counterterrorism Center
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

October 30, 2019


Thank you, Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Rogers, and members of the committee, for the opportunity to be with you today. I will begin with a brief overview of the terrorism threat before discussing homeland and overseas threats in more detail. I will close my opening remarks with a discussion of global trends impacting counterterrorism efforts, along with comments on the way forward, from NCTC’s perspective.

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