Politics News TheFoxPosts.com

Chinese cyber threat "unparalleled," FBI Director says The Chinese cyber threat is " unparalleled " by any other national security challenge seen by the U.S. government, according to FBI Director Christopher Wray. China, seemingly gearing up to invade Taiwan within years or even months, poses the most significant threat to the United States more broadly, Wray said during Thursday testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee. "They've got a bigger hacking program than every other major nation," Wray said. "There's no country that presents a more significant threat to our innovation, our ideas, our economic security, our national security than Chinese government. And that's why we've grown the number of investigations into threat s from China about 1300%," he added. FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies during a hearing before the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Subcommittee of the House Appropria...

House Democrats helped avert a government shutdown, amid "brinkmanship" and "theater" by hard-line conservatives, Biden budget director Shalanda Young argued It was Democrats in the House who helped avert a partial government shutdown this weekend, in the final hours before funding ran out amid " brinkmanship " and "theater" by hard-line conservatives, President Joe Biden's budget director argued on Sunday. "I will tell you, if I'm sick of it, I can only imagine what the American people are feeling," White House Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young told ABC "This Week" co-anchor Jonathan Karl. "Why go down this road, take us so close?" After increasingly urgent deliberations in the House, Republicans on Saturday introduced a stopgap funding bill that will fund the government until Nov. 17, a near "clean" continuing resolution that did not include the priorities of some in the...

Patrick "P.J." Lechleitner is a career ICE official with more than 20 years with the Department of Homeland Security The Biden administration has selected the new head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sources confirmed to ABC News on Wednesday. Patrick "P.J." Lechleitner, a career ICE official, will become acting director of the agency after more than 20 years with the Department of Homeland Security. Lechleitner's predecessor as acting director , Tae Johnson, announced his retirement last month. MORE: 4 more suspects charged in deadliest US smuggling attempt A founding member of DHS in the early 2000s, Lechleitner worked his way up through Homeland Security Investigations, the division of ICE responsible for combating human trafficking and smuggling. "He is someone whose counsel I have sought, and whose advice and guidance I have trusted," HSI Special Agent in Charge Scott Brown said in a statement to ABC News. "PJ gets it. He gets it at ...

FBI Director Christopher Wray described how his agency saw an increase in cyberattacks from Russia at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine Speaking Thursday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, FBI Director Christopher Wray described how his agency saw an increase in cyberattacks from Russia at the beginning of its invasion of Ukraine last year and he hammered the Chinese for their artificial intelligence program. At the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in February 2022, the FBI observed a growing number of Russian attempts to carry out cyberattacks , Wray said. "We did see, as the conflict erupted and increased, effort by the Russian intelligence services -- which have been conducting malicious cyberactivity against U.S. infrastructure for years," he said. MORE: China has stolen American data more than any country: FBI Director Wray Wray also took aim at another U.S. competitor: China. He predicted that China's artificial intelligence program ...