Cybersecurity
Spy Chiefs to Warn of Threats From SolarWinds to North Korea
- Return to public testimony after Trump called his team ‘naive’
- Four top intelligence chiefs to testify on Wednesday, Thursday
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U.S. intelligence chiefs will testify together publicly for the first time in more than two years as the Biden administration confronts early tests of its approach to evolving threats, from Russia’s SolarWinds attack and Chinese espionage to the nuclear ambitions of North Korea and Iran.
The “Worldwide Threats” hearings before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday and the House Intelligence panel on Thursday used to be an annual event. But officials under President Donald Trump didn’t participate last year after he savaged them as “extremely passive and naive” for their 2019 testimony that Iran was in compliance with an international nuclear accord and that North Korea would never give up its nuclear arsenal.