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Michael Thomas McCaul, Sr. (born January 14, 1962) is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. Since the beginning of the 113th Congress, he has been the Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security.

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In order to have greater visibility of the larger cyber threat landscape, we must remove the government bureaucratic stovepipes that inhibit our abilities to effectively defend America while ensuring citizens' privacy and civil liberties are also protected

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When I spoke to Secretary of State Blinken and national security adviser Jake Sullivan, they both told me that they believe China poses the greatest long-term national security threat to the United States, so it was good to get their assurances on that.

– Michael McCaul

Found on FOX News 20 days ago Politics

We're playing a limited -- limited -- but important role in defending American national security and American interests against terrorists who would like nothing more than for the most powerful force for good in the world to simply pick up our ball and go home, they would love that.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

President Trump deserves major credit -- major credit -- for reducing Michael McCaul forces in Afghanistan to a sustainable level, scoring major victories against terrorists across the region and ensuring the Afghans themselves are at the front of the fight, that same successful approach should continue until the conditions for long term defeat of ISIS and al Qaeda have been achieved.

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Found on CNN 3 months ago Politics

I think President Donald Trump does enjoy a relationship with President Xi. President Donald Trump wants the trade, you know, the trade deal to work. At the same time, President Donald Trump recognizes where this virus came from, michael McCaul know I don't call it the Chines virus. I call it the coronavirus or Covid-19. But the fact remains, where did this come from ? It came out of the wildlife markets in Wuhan, and it spread beyond control outside of China. For nearly two months, there were many things they could've done to contain the virus, and they failed to do that. And I think they need to be held accountable.

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Found on CNN 11 months ago Top News

We think it's important as a statement to say' this was an act of terror,' the El Paso case will no doubt be The El Paso case. He's charged with capital murder. But The El Paso case's also important to identify to the American people that this is domestic terrorism in the United States. We're simply giving another tool in the toolbox to law enforcement and prosecutors.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

Interestingly, the domestic terrorism definition was included in the 9-11 legislation with international terrorism, but there are no charges or penalties associated with it, so, New York City.The FBI will open up a case under domestic terrorism, but they don't have the ability to be able to charge a domestic terrorism case. We simply added charges to domestic terrorism to give New York City.The FBI a tool in addition to their crimes that they can charge whether New York City.The FBI be capital murder to assault.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I don't associate Michael McCaul with the rhetoric on both sides of the aisle.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I wasn't hardline enough, I guess.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I decided if I'm going to do this again, I'm going to work it hard, maybe harder than I ever have.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

I am deeply disturbed that Saudi Arabia has reportedly detained two more American citizens as well as other peaceful activists. This is a grave and provocative act, the Saudi government's detention of American citizens is completely unacceptable and I call for their immediate release.

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Found on CNN 1 year ago Politics

If we cut all this funding, and a lot of it, quite honestly, is seriously law enforcement that we're doing down there ... I think it's going to make things tragically worse, not better.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

I don't think they thought it through.

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Found on Reuters 1 year ago Politics

The war on terror did not end with the death of Usama bin Laden, in fact, there have been more terror plots against the West since his killing than any time since 9/11, there was an imminent threat to our aviation sector and I think the administration took very responsible actions to safeguard the safety of Americans here in the homeland.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

We must remain clear-eyed about the threats we face.

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Found on FOX News 3 years ago Politics

A silent war is waged against us in cyber space – if we don’t shape it, it will be shaped against us, every person in this room is a target and the phones in your pocket ar the battle space – and the enemy is winning.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

There are issues I know they are particularly interested in, so we will get traction in those areas. a silent war is waged against us in cyber space – if we don’t shape it, it will be shaped against us.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The President-elect wants stronger relationships with Russia and to change the dynamics we have with Russia, there are radical Islamist forces that will perhaps be more aggressive in attacks against Russia and I think it is an opportunity for us to work with them, but Russia is not our friend – [ President Vladimir ] Putin is not our friend.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

Every person in this room is a target and the phones in your pocket ar the battle space – and the enemy is winning.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

The bottom line is this: To protect our country, we must project our power –and use it to defeat these fanatics for good.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Politics

I’m concerned that we have only seen the tip of the iceberg.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

What we have to do is target the threat and make sure that they don't come in.

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Found on Reuters 4 years ago Politics

Change is not happening fast enough.

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Found on FOX News 4 years ago Latest Headlines

Our intelligence community has ... told me that individuals with terrorism ties in Syria have already tried to gain access to our country through the refugee program, what’s even more concerning is that top officials have testified before this committee that intelligence gaps prevent us from being able to confidently weed out terrorists.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

What’s even more concerning is that top officials have testified before this committee that intelligence gaps prevent us from being able to confidently weed out terrorists.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

We should be careful not to vilify ‘encryption’ itself, which is essential for privacy, data security, and global commerce, but I have personally been briefed on cases where terrorists communicated in darkness and where we couldn’t shine a light, even with a lawful warrant.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Company News

There's a serious investigation ongoing into what she was doing in Pakistan and in Saudi, we think that she had a lot to do with the radicalization process and perhaps with Mr. Farook's radicalization from within in the United States.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

The wild card here is the wife Malik.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

We are looking at the terrorist financing aspect to this case. I believe on his salary, he was not able to buy this on his own.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

The bill requires the nation's top security officials - the secretary of Homeland Security, the director of the FBI and the director of National Intelligence - to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Politics

The bill requires the nation's top security officials — the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Director of the FBI, and the Director of National Intelligence — to certify before admitting any Syrian or Iraqi refugee into the United States that the individual does not represent a security threat.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

I think this possibly could have been in the works for quite some time though, in terms of plotting, and the other question is, how did this thing get on the airplane?

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

But I think the more likely scenario where all indicators seem to be pointing, is that this was an ISIS attack with an explosive device in the airplane.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

I think that we need to step up this war on terror against ISIS because if it's a Russian airline today it could be an American airline tomorrow.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Industrials

We spend billions of dollars to kill terrorists and keep them out of the United States, but we spend very little on prevention from within, outreach to U.S. communities. A lot of this could be stopped by prevention if we had outreach to these communities.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Technology

This bill will rein in the Administration’s refugee resettlement plans and give Congress more control over the process.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago Top News

Were I in Iraq or in Sham [Syria], I would cooperate with them in fighting the Crusaders.

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Found on CNN 5 years ago Top News

Right now, the security at subways and on trains is based on K9s, but also good actionable intelligence, in the case of our American heroes that took down this terrorist, it’s just vigilance on the traveling part of the public that did that.

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Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

There is a real risk that individuals associated with terrorist groups will attempt to exploit the refugee resettlement program in order to gain entry into our country.

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Found on Reuters 5 years ago World

Had it gotten any closer to the speaker's balcony they have long guns to take it down, but it didn't. It landed right in front.

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Found on FOX News 5 years ago Latest Headlines

I wrote to the President recently as part of my ongoing investigation and raised concerns that we have no lead agency in charge of countering domestic radicalization and no line item for it in the budgets of key departments and agencies, i am also concerned that the few programs we do have in place are far too small to confront a challenge that has grown so quickly.

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Found on CNN 6 years ago Politics

He has ignored the will of the people, instead choosing to offer up the same tired and failed policies.

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Found on FOX News 6 years ago Politics

Assaults from cyber-jihadists will become more common unless the administration develops a strategy for appropriately responding to these cyberattacks, including those like the North Korea attack against Sony.

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Found on Reuters 6 years ago Top News

If we don't think that message is making its way back to Mexico and Central America, we are simply fooling ourselves, we will see a wave of illegal immigration because of the president's actions.

– Michael McCaul

Found on Reuters 6 years ago Politics

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