James Clapper actually said...

The intelligence community has done a lot of things to make sure that never happens again. And so, yes, it's true that was a big mistake. But we have learned from it and inserted, the intelligence community has, I should say, and injected a lot of safeguards to prevent that from ever happening again.

Context

James Clapper discusses the improvements made in the intelligence community to prevent past mistakes, specifically referencing the Iraq WMD failure.

07/05/2017

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