James Clapper

the intelligence chiefs said they were going to tell President-elect Trump about it.

the president went out with an inaccurate presentation of the facts which was then contradicted in public by two people in the room, the director of national intelligence and the vice president.

However, part of our obligation is ensure the policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matter that might affect national security.

The Russians just believed or came to the conclusion that, because the President-elect is a businessman, that he would be easier to make deals with than the Democrats.

this is a multi-faceted activity. It began with a rather broad-gauged assault

That's correct. It's just as technology has progressed the Russians have taken advantage of it for this purpose.

Absolutely not. The President asked us to compile all available information that we had, and when he was briefed on it he made the point once again that he was not--had not and was not going to give us any direction.

I think, as we said in our October statement, this came from the highest levels of the government.

I do think it would be useful, though, if we are going to reform or change the DNI or change CIA...

Every American should be alarmed by Russia's attacks on our Nation.

The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections, theirs and other people's.

We have invested billions, and we put people's lives at risk to glean such information.

I am a big fan of sanctions against the Russians, but that is just me.

There is no national security interest more vital to the United States of America than the ability to hold free and fair elections without foreign interference.

I think there is a threshold of behavior that is just unacceptable, and somehow that has to be conveyed.

I don't think we've ever encountered a more aggressive or direct campaign to interfere in our election process than we've seen in this case.

We stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement that we made on the 7th of October.

I do think we need a U.S. Information Agency on steroids that deals with the totality of the information realm.

There was a difference between skepticism and disparagement.

I certainly agree the Congress, no pun intended, gets a vote here I think.

you have testified before this committee that Cuba is an intelligence threat on par with Iran.

Yes, Chairman McCain, they are. As I indicated in my statement, we stand actually more resolutely on the strength of that statement that we made on the 7th of October.

It's not up to the administration and certainly not up to me personally to decide on the suitability of the presidential candidate.

The U.S. cannot fix it.

U.S. officials and others were telling us that it's likely that in this case, the North Koreans, as they've done before will use this young man as leverage.