James Clapper: “The United States no longer faces--as in the Cold War--one dominant threat.”

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.

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.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

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