Opening Statement As Prepared by The Honorable Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence
Chairman Cotton, Vice Chair Warner, Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to present to you the Intelligence Community’s 2025 Annual Threat Assessment, joined by my colleagues from CIA, DIA, FBI, and NSA.
Our testimony offers the collective assessment of the 18 U.S. intelligence elements making up the U.S. Intelligence Community and draws on intelligence collection, information available to the IC from open-source and the private sector, and the expertise of our analysts.
This report evaluates what the IC assesses most threatens our people and our nation’s ability to live in a peaceful, free, secure, and prosperous society. We face an increasingly complex threat environment that is affecting us here at home, and our interests abroad.
I’ll begin by focusing on what most immediately and directly threatens the United States and the wellbeing of the American people — non-state criminal groups and terrorists putting American lives and livelihood at risk, followed by key nation states who have the capability to threaten the interests of the United States. In this complex environment, non-state and state actors are able to exploit or take advantage of the effects of each other’s activities. Conventional and asymmetric capabilities even the traditionally weakest of actors are able to acquire from available advanced technologies creates an even more complex and serious threat landscape.
First, I will highlight threats presented by several non-state actors. Cartels, gangs, and other transnational criminal organizations ….
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