We Are On The Lookout For Criminal

It's All About Who Gets To Work And Making Sure They're Legally Present In Our Country. And To Do That Nationally E-verify Becomes A Key Component. It Certainly Needs To Available, Effective And As Inexpensive As Possible And That Employer Needs To Use It As A Tool. Some Of The Arguments That Are Made About How It Works Or Does Not Work Don't Carry Much Water With Me. I've Already Used It For Several Years. It Works.

The United States Is The Nation Of Innovation. And We Have The Best Innovators, Really, In The World. Our International Property Is One Of Our Huge National Economic Assets. Yes, So To The Extent That Some Are Seeking To Infiltrate Our Network, Steal That Information, Not To Have Invest In The Research And Development That Goes Into Innovation, That's A Really Big Deal.

What We're Going To Do With Cyber-attacks - And We Have Already Actually Started - We Started Well Before The Executive Order Actually Was Issued - Is Working With The Private Sector, Determine How Best To Share Information, Because, You Know, We Can't Help Until We Know That There Has Actually Been An Attempted Intrusion Or Attack. Information-sharing Piece Is Very Important.

We Are On The Lookout For Criminal And Terrorist Activity But We Do Not Nor Will We Ever Monitor Ideology Or Political Beliefs. We Take Seriously Our Responsibility To Protect Civil Rights And Liberties Of The American People, Including Subjecting Our Activities To Rigorous Oversight From Numerous Internal And External Sources.

One Of The Most Striking Elements Of Today's Threat Picture Is That Plots To Attack America Increasingly Involve American Residents And Citizens.