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rt to the Congress, with testimony from Federal Reserve Board Chair Jerome Powell; 10:00 AM • Senate Judiciary Committee concludes consideration of Merrick Garland to be AG - Nominations hearing considers Merrick Garland to be Attorney General, second and final day, with testimony from external witnesses * Hear

Garland "appears to be on his way to Senate confirmation." CBS' Kris Van Cleave: "Nearly five years after being nominated to the US Supreme Court, Merrick Garland finally got his Senate confirmation hearing today for attorney general. ... He'd take over a department beset by low morale and under fire by Democ

ent Claims Amid Pandemic. • Political Vendor Linked To Tennessee Lawmaker's Campaign. EFTA00148034 CYBER DIVISION • Congress To Hold Hearings On SolarWinds Hack. • Legislators To Review Proposed Cyber Diplomacy Act. • Georgia Launches Cyber Fraud Task Force. • New Study Says Most Cyberattacks In 2020

and Names Coley To Lead Public Affairs At DO), Sources Say. Axios (1/26, Nichols, 1.26M) reports President Biden's Attorney General-designate Judge Merrick Garland "has tapped Anthony Coley, an Obama-era Treasury Department official, to serve as a senior adviser and to lead public affairs at the Department of J

BC (1/26, 7.34M) reports in a video that, "in December, cybersecurity firm FireEye discovered that it had been compromised by a sophisticated hack." SolarWinds, an IT firm that FireEye used, "was the victim of a supply-chain attack that gave hackers access to potentially thousands of targets, including Fir

of a 10-year term for the FBI director serves the important purpose of insulating the bureau from political pressure." Along with Biden's chose of Merrick Garland, who didn't endorse Biden, as his attorney general, the "decisions send a signal that the new president is serious about not interfering in prosecu

te Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin and eight other Senate Democrats are seeking "answers on the impact of the recently discovered breach of IT group SolarWinds on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Courts (AO), both of which were compromised." They wrote in a letter, "We are alarmed at the potenti

acks as the 20th anniversary of the attacks looms." The Herald adds, "GOP lawmakers in DC — along with a few Democrats - wrote to both U.S. Attorney Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray to finally go public with the intel. It could expose how out of the 19 hijackers that day, 15 of them were citize

er Russia From New Cyberattacks. CNN (4/24, Marquardt, Cohen, Sands, 89.21M) reports the White House's top official "on the response to the massive SolarWinds hack says the sweeping measures announced by the Biden Administration against Russia are unlikely on their own to prevent Moscow's malicious cyber