James Clapper actually said...
I would certainly want to listen to the tape, not for voyeuristic purposes, but as important as this incident was, it seems to me if you were really insidiously pursuing every scrap of information, every morsel of data that would cast light on what happened that you would want to listen to that tape regardless of the language.
Context
Clapper emphasizes the importance of listening to the audio tape related to Khashoggi's murder for intelligence purposes.
11/26/2018