I think, given the profound threats posed to this country both by nation-states and others who are trying to collect information against us, I'm not convinced that... we have devoted sufficient resources to counterintelligence in the Department of Defense...
Clapper expresses concern over insufficient counterintelligence resources amid growing threats.
Share
More from James Clapper
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…
The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.
I think this reflects Russian insecurity. And it's almost like, Putin needs a rhetorical security blanket, of making threats, like this.
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.
Other voices in this conversation
