abstract:The United States Intelligence Community (IC) is a federation of 16 separate United States government agencies that work separately and together to conduct intelligence activities considered necessary for the conduct of foreign relations and national security of the United States. Member organizations of the IC include intelligence agencies, military intelligence, and civilian intelligence and analysis offices within federal executive departments.
As I said, we have an amazing track record here within the UnitedStates, the intelligencecommunity across the board, as far as identifying these plots early, disrupting them, thwarting them, and preventing those types of attacks -- in every instance.
In fact, some people are frustrated by that approach that we take because it is so vital to the ability of our men and women both in uniform as well as in the intelligencecommunity to protect the UnitedStates and to fulfilling their missions that we protect that information.