James Clapper: “I think it's going to be probably have a very -- to put it mildly, a chilling effect on any future whistleblower's…”

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.

This has devolved into an ad hoc - ad hocing, at this point, this bizarre news conference, from Ministry of Defense, which trying to sort of rationalize, and explain, the Russian Military predicament, really, in Ukraine.

I think right now, they're assessing the administration -- that's the National Security Council specifically, is assessing the impacts of this first round of strikes.

it's a question of time. It's not if, it's when we have some sort of confrontation that we're going to have to respond to, the NATO will have to respond to.