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Source: United States Director of National Intelligence
Headline: DNI Coats Opening Statement on the Worldwide Threat Assessment
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Source: United States Director of National Intelligence
Headline: Statement for the Record: Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community
STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD
WORLDWIDE THREAT ASSESSMENT
of the
US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY
Daniel R. Coats
Director of National Intelligence
February 13, 2018
INTRODUCTION
Chairman Burr, Vice Chairman Warner, Members of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to offer the United States Intelligence Community’s 2018 assessment of threats to US national security.
My statement reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community’s extraordinary women and men, whom I am privileged and honored to lead. We in the Intelligence Community are committed every day to providing the nuanced, independent, and unvarnished intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need to protect American lives and America’s interests anywhere in the world. The order of the topics presented in this statement does not necessarily indicate the relative importance or magnitude of the threat in the view of the Intelligence Community.
Information available as of 8 February 2018 was used in the preparation of this assessment.