Words matter. These are the best James Clapper Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.
I’ve long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets’ lives at risk.
Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.
Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.
This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.
ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.
It is not the intelligence community’s place to set and implement policy.
In this job, I’ve found the less I talk, the better.
In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.
The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a candidate is anointed by its party at a convention – that is all that is required. And it’s not up to me or the administration to determine candidate suitability for these briefings.
The term ‘Muslim Brotherhood’… is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.
What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens’ e-mails. I stand by that.
Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe – I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.
A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that’s not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it’s China.
The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections – theirs and other people’s.
A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.
I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early ’80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.
I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging – enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.
The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.
The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
