SSCI Hearing on Current and Projected National Security Threats Against the United States

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January 29, 2014

Happening now, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is holding an open hearing on “Current and Projected National Security Threats Against the United States.” Testifying this morning is Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (full text of his testimony is here).  Unfortunately, C-SPAN doesn’t allow us to embed a video of the hearing here, but you can watch the hearing live on C-SPAN3 or stream it from the C-SPAN website. 

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