WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. James Lankford issued the following news release:
US Senator James Lankford (R-OK), a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, questioned intelligence community officials during the Committee's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment hearing, raising concerns about the rise in international scams targeting Americans, coordination with state and local law enforcement to combat narcotics trafficking, and terrorist networks, including the Muslim Brotherhood.
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On international scams and AI-enabled fraud:
Lankford: "A lot of Oklahomans I talk to, and quite frankly folks even outside the state, when they think about threats... they think about the threat to their family... a lot of it is international scam...