National Security and Foreign Affairs
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the Associated Press report that former Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort worked for a Russian billionaire to benefit Vladimir Putin and the Russian Government.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on President Trump's budget blueprint for Fiscal Year 2018.
"I have now reviewed Donald Trump's first budget. It is a ridiculous budget from a ridiculous President. His crazy budget proposal is a disaster and it's dangerous."
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in response to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's comments about potential U.S. pre-emptive military strikes on North Korea.
A Homeland Security pilot program designed to monitor a specific kind of mobile hacking may have discovered consistent attacks around the country. But a source with knowledge of the program says it is too early to make that determination.
The program, dubbed Overwatch, is managed by Homeland Security using the contractor ESD America and is designed to detect what's known as Signalling System 7 (SS7) hacking.
Sen. Ron Wyden and Rep. Ted Lieu have asked the Department of Homeland Security if wireless carriers have done enough to monitor and report surveillance exploits on their networks.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and California Representative Ted Lieu are pressing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on a mobile network vulnerability that they consider to be a systemic digital threat.
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Washington, D.C. – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Calif., today urged the Department of Homeland Security to tell Americans how their security may be threatened by a vulnerability that could allow hackers and foreign governments to track, wiretap, and hack their mobile phones.
The government's recording of former national security adviser Michael Flynn's telephone call with Russia's ambassador to the U.S. appears set to become a flashpoint in the fight over reauthorization of a controversial part of U.S. surveillance law.
The incident — which prompted Flynn's resignation in February — is a sign that significant reforms are needed, a dozen Democrats said Tuesday.
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WASHINGTON: Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-CA) – along with 11 fellow Members of Congress – has sent a letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes asking him to consider reforming FISA's controversial Section 702 to help ensure that the activities of United States intelligence agencies do not violate the constitutional rights of the American people.
In the letter, Mr. Lieu and his Congressional colleagues write: