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Mazie Hirono: “Special agents who investigate cyber cybercrime were also…”

Featuring: Mazie Hirono, Democratic | U.S. Senate Hawaii

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Since the people who originally were there. Supremely qualified individuals have those positions. Are they supremely qualified individuals? Who are they? What are the names you're not getting? You don't know? Special agents who investigate cyber cybercrime were also reassigned for immigration enforcement. Have those expert investigators returned to their duties? Yes or no? All agents remained on their primary duties while surging to to allocate resources for interagency operations to the Homeland Security task forces across this country. (07:05–07:13)

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Asserts that special agents investigating cybercrime were reassigned to immigration enforcement.

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