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James Clapper

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James R. Clapper is a former Director of National Intelligence, serving from 2010 to 2017 under President Barack Obama. He is a retired United States Air Force lieutenant general and has had a long career in intelligence and national security. Clapper has also held various positions within the Department of Defense and the National Security Agency. His tenure as Director of National Intelligence was marked by significant events, including the rise of cybersecurity threats and the ongoing challenges posed by terrorism. Clapper has been a vocal advocate for intelligence reform and has emphasized the importance of transparency and oversight in the intelligence community.

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Jan 21, 2024

I've gotten very concerned about it. There are Chinese, Russians and others so we traditionally thought about it as people coming from Central America, South and Central America. Well, it's much broader than that. So this is a serious…

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Jan 11, 2024

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.

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Jan 11, 2024

I think the reason they were taken off the list was to provide an inducement or motivation for them to agree to some sort of ceasefire.

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Oct 1, 2023

Ties with Tehran offer some regional governments a means of staking an independent position on Iran, thereby mitigating its isolation while also attempting to extract Iranian financial aid and investment for economic and social projects.

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Feb 9, 2023

No, I don't. The Chinese setup is that there is a Polit bureau member who is the overseer -- the senior overseer on behalf of the Polit bureau for the entirety of the Intelligence and Security apparatus of China.

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Nov 13, 2022

given the broad distribution, low cost, and accelerated pace of development of this dual-use technology, its deliberate or unintentional misuse might lead to far-reaching economic and national security implications.

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Sep 6, 2022

Well, no, it doesn't. And the fact that none of this makes sense, but most acutely, I think, nuclear-related information.

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May 12, 2022

Well, Anderson, that's exactly right. And this is what this whole issue boils down to, is will to fight.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.

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Apr 26, 2022

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

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Apr 26, 2022

I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.

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Apr 12, 2022

There's this gray area of First Amendment protection rights versus an insidious presence in our country that is really there to weaken and destroy our system. That's really what this is about. And its state sponsored.

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Mar 24, 2022

It speaks to Putin's character, and his KGB background, having essentially lawless, mercenary group, a private army, responsible only to him.

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Mar 24, 2022

This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.

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Mar 22, 2022

I think the tide is beginning to turn here in favor of the Ukrainians, and if they can sustain this, and that means, we in NATO, providing them the weapons they need, the supplies they need, et cetera because the Russians are going to run…

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Mar 17, 2022

I think the Chinese are going to treat the Russians, somewhat analogously, to the way they treat the North Koreans.

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Mar 16, 2022

this is the standard Russian -- Soviet Russian way of war. Surround a city if they can and they are having trouble doing that, put it under siege, strangle it, prevent supplies, medicines, food, water, et cetera and then bombard the city…

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Mar 16, 2022

I think, I'll use the example of what is still the major Russian prize, which is Kyiv. And so they, they're having difficulty surrounding it. But assuming they did, and then they try to strangle the lines of communication bombard the city…

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Mar 12, 2022

I think the Russians, Putin, I say Russians, Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.

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Mar 12, 2022

it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.

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Mar 12, 2022

I think it's very probable he'll use chemical weapons at some point.

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Mar 11, 2022

there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.

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