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Chairman Crawford Joins Fox News to Discuss Current U.S. Counterintelligence Threats
Washington,
September 29, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C.— House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Rick Crawford (AR-01) joined Fox News’ Saturday in America to discuss the U.S. Secret Service’s recent dismantling of a network of telecommunications devices that could have presented a catastrophic threat during the UN General Assembly in New York City last week. The great work of the U.S. Secret Service is a stark reminder of the threats posed by foreign adversaries right here in our homeland, and that the U.S. is often fighting to catch up. All aspects of our nation’s counterintelligence community must be coordinated in a synchronized manner to impede such activities. Recent events demonstrate that there is more than enough work to go around. We cannot risk waiting for the counterintelligence version of September 11th to make the reforms needed to strategically disable, disrupt, and neutralize foreign intelligence entities’ activities against the U.S. Chairman Crawford’s SECURE Act, passed out of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence earlier this month, would modernize and optimize the nation’s counterintelligence enterprise with an integrated whole of IC approach to mitigate the evolving threats to the U.S. homeland while delivering a strategic effort to deter hostile powers operating within our homeland. Watch his full interview here.
NATION STATES OPERATING UNDETECTED IN U.S. HOMELAND: “Well, first off, you know, credit where credit's due. The Secret Service did a good job intercepting this, making sure that that didn't happen. But it really points to a bigger problem. That's the ability of nation states and or proxies to be able to operate in our very permissive society and using technology like this that has the potential to really wreak calamity and particularly at a time, you know, when the UN General Assembly is taking place and you've got not only the President of the United States but other heads of state present for that. This could have been absolutely catastrophic.” HARDENING THE HOMELAND: “And the reality is that we have a very permissive and open society and we have to harden our country and protect the American people. And that's just what the Secret Service did. But it also opens up this other area of conversation—What are we doing in the counterintelligence space to thwart these types of events and prevent them from happening in the future?” PREPPING THE BATTLEFIELD: “This is a tactic that you might call prepping the battlefield. That is to say, an adversary might be able to do this and then be able to launch an attack, prevent, you know, an adequate response as you indicated. What that would mean from the standpoint of you know a mass casualty attack and our inability to respond to it or can they target specific areas maybe hospitals [or] first responders or whatnot. Yes, obviously they can. These are very sophisticated actors, as has been indicated. So it definitely presents a challenge for us.” U.S. REQUIRES A MORE PROACTIVE COUNTERINTELLIGENCE STRATEGY: “We live in a free and open society, and we have adversaries that want to take advantage of that and we need people as the Secret Service is part of that to make sure that they're protecting the American people. And so that's what we seek to do and we need to be much more proactive and diligent on the counterintelligence front to prevent these kinds of things from happening in the first place.” ### |
