James Clapper: “I think we are in a period of transition in the leadership in the intelligence community.”

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.

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.

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

A stark reminder that the terrorist threat to this country hasn't gone away. We cannot take our eyes off this ball.