James Clapper: “However, part of our obligation is ensure the policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matter…”

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

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.

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.