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WASHINGTON — The na-tion’s top intelligence official warned Congress on Tues-day that a cyberattack could cripple the United States’ in-frastructure and economy and suggested that such attacks pose the most dangerous im-mediate threat to the U.S., more pressing than an attack by global terrorist networks.

James R. Clapper Jr., the di-rector of national intelligence, said in prepared testimony to the Senate Intelligence Com-mittee that U.S. spy agencies saw only a “remote chance” in the next two years of a major cyberattack what he defined as an operation that “would result in long-term, wide-scale disruption of services, such as a regional power outage.”

Still, it was the first time that Clapper has listed cy-berattacks first in his annual presentation to Congress about the various threats fac-ing the United States, and the rare occasion since 2001 that intelligence officials have not listed international terrorism first in the catalog of dangers. In 2009, the director of na-tional intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, called the global finan-cial crisis the “primary near-term security concern of the United States.”

In Clapper’s testimony, he said, “In some cases, the world is applying digital tech-nologies faster than our abil-ity to understand the security implications and mitigate po-tential risks.”

In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama highlighted the dan-gers of cyberespionage, and U.S. officials have recently escalated rhetoric aimed at China. On Monday, Tom Donilon, the national security adviser, called on China to agree to “acceptable norms of behavior in cyberspace.”

Clapper began testimony on Tuesday with the heads of several other intelligence agencies, including Lt. Gen. Michael T. Flynn of the De-fense Intelligence Agency and John O. Brennan, who took over as director of the CIA last week after a lengthy con-firmation fight.

The threat hearing is the only scheduled occasion each year when the spy chiefs pres-ent open testimony to Con-gress about the dangers fac-ing the United States.

Clapper also gave new em-phasis to the danger posed by North Korea’s nuclear weap-ons and missile programs, which is said for the first time to “pose a serious threat to the United States” as well as to its East Asian neighbors.

North Korea, which recent-ly made a series of belliger-

ent statements after its third nuclear test, has displayed an intercontinental missile that can be moved by road and in December launched a satel-lite, the report noted.

The intelligence agencies see evidence of North Ko-rea’s “commitment to develop long-range missile technol-ogy” that could endanger the United States, Clapper said, but its willingness to use its weapons remains uncertain.

Clapper said it was unlikely that Russia and China would launch “devastating” cyberat-tacks against the U.S. in the next two years, but he said for-eign spy services had already hacked the computer networks of government agencies, busi-

nesses and private companies.In his discussion of terror-

ism, Clapper noted that while al-Qaida’s core in Pakistan “is probably unable to carry out complex, large-scale attacks in the West,” a host of spinoffs still posed a threat. Listed

first is the affiliate in Yemen, al-Qaida in the Arabian Penin-sula, which Clapper said had retained its goal of attacks on U.S. soil, but he also noted militant groups in six other countries that still threaten local violence.

N. KOREA ALSO HIGH ON INTELLIGENCE CHIEFS’ LIST

Cyberattacks top U.S. security concernBy Mark Mazzetti and Scott ShaneThe New York Times

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