Statement for the Record on the Worldwide Threat Assessment Before the Senate Committee on Armed Services

By Ronald L. Burgess, Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency
March 10, 2011

The United States continues to face a complex security environment marked by a broad spectrum of dissimilar threats, some emerging from nation-states and others from highly adaptive transnational networks. This testimony reflects DIA's analysis, derived from the agency's worldwide human intelligence, technical intelligence, counterintelligence, and document and media exploitation capabilities, along with information and intelligence from our Intelligence Community partners, coalition partners, and open sources.

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