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Will Hurd

Profession : Politician

Birth : August 19, 1977

Measure yourself and your success by what you give to others, not what you receive in return.

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No longer are technology and cyber issues confined to tech geeks in some backroom. In the digital age, IT issues are front and center. They are central to what government does and how it does it.

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My dad is black and my mom is white. It was not in vogue to be an interracial couple in the 1970s in South Texas. After my parents moved to San Antonio, it took almost a year for them to find their first home.

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Life is hard. Life is difficult. Life is going to punch you in the gut. But when you change your attitude, you change your behavior. When your behavior changes, so do your results.

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Disinformation is more than just lying: it's the denial and twisting of reality in order to present some desired image to the rest of the world.

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The U.S's first ballistic missile test was a complete disaster. The Atlas Missile Program, which began in the early 1950s, attempted its first ballistic missile launch on June 11, 1957. The rocket flew for 24 seconds before blowing up. It took two more years before the first successfully armed test flight took place.

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Our party was built upon the beliefs of President Abraham Lincoln, who took the significant step to put us on the long path for equality.

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Our leaders have the solemn obligation to know the proper steps to take before acting upon them, and building a wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf Coast of Texas is a third-century solution to a 21st-century problem.

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The United States has the most capable military in the world. We have the best intelligence agencies.

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Whether you are on the left or the right, we should all agree that organized human smugglers are putting innocent lives at risk. As a former undercover officer in the CIA, I am appalled that we are not maximizing the use of intelligence to deny and disrupt these transnational smuggling networks.

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We must have real debates where disagreements exist, listen to each other, not shy away from ideas different from our own and treat people with respect.

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The government adoption of AI will not bring about a government being run by robots. Instead, our government will continue to be run by people, with help from algorithms dramatically improving government services for all Americans.

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Having served in both Pakistan and India, I'm familiar with how their nuclear armament influenced regional stability.

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During my time in Pakistan, I was asked to lead an expedition to Azad Kashmir following a devastating earthquake in 2005 that claimed the lives of 80,000 people.

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Bad actors like Russia, Iran, and China have demonstrated time and time again they have both the capabilities and the intent to use the cyber domain as an operating space to wreak havoc.

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The tragic conditions at detention facilities are the result of an intense surge in migration across the border.

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I spent close to a decade as an undercover officer in the CIA and have spent most of my adult life collecting intelligence and protecting sources and methods.

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It is my job to know the difference between information and intelligence.

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Professionals refer to the stages of the intelligence cycle as collection, processing, analyzing and sharing information. In most cases, the implications and significance of raw pieces of information found in classified materials are reviewed and vetted to keep sensationalized and unsubstantiated accounts from being deemed credible.

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Classified information includes much more than the actual 'secrets' acquired. It includes how they were acquired and the process by which related analyses were made.

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