Director of National Intelligence James Clapper recently testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee that the Iranian leadership is now 'more willing to conduct an attack in the United States in response to real or perceived U.S. actions that threaten the regime.'
Clapper warns about Iran's increased willingness to attack the U.S.
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I think it has more to do with the psychology of Putin, and Russia. And he needs to assure his own people, Parliamentarians, he was talking to, and for that matter, himself, that Russia is still a great power.
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…
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.
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