Our adversaries are always looking to steal our secrets, to co opt our citizens and have them steal our secrets and send them back to places like Russia, China, dprk, Iran, just to name a few. We prioritized our counterespionage division to go after and cripple these adversarial attacks on our citizens and the theft of our classified information. The FBI since I've been in the seat has seen a 55% increase in espionage arrests alone. 55% from the last 16 months that have been in compared to the prior two years of the, of the Biden administration. (29:26–29:39)
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Asserts prioritization of the counterespionage division to combat adversarial attacks and theft of classified information.
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