I believe the incumbent in that position should be an intelligent professional or a national security professional and preferably somebody that's had some experience running in large organizations.
Clapper argues for the qualifications necessary for the DNI position.
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there's going to be more of the graphic, wanton brutality that they've witnessed.
This is quite different. And, you know, shocking, stunning, but not surprising, a phrase that we often find ourselves using about revelations of abuse of power by the Trump administration.
It's inconceivable to me that the Russian intelligence services aren't aware of this, and that Putin has certainly at least acquiesced if not directed -- directing it.
I think, though, that what has been in the past considered an annoyance or an irritation, has now risen to the level of a genuine national security threat.
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