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to David Sanger. Clapper said his office's "first key judgment in 2016" was that "the initial objective was to sow doubt, discord, and discontent." Clapper added that Russian actors "exploit and amplify the polarization and divisiveness" in the US. Opinion: Iran's Election Interference Aims Also To Dis

s are creating a "perception hack," meaning they want the "perception that they're inside the system, and sow distrust," according to David Sanger. Clapper said his office's "first key judgment in 2016" was that "the initial objective was to sow doubt, discord, and discontent." Clapper added that Russia

ional security will play a 'key role' in the election, with Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, Voto Latino CEO and President Maria Teresa Kumar, and former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Henry McMaster; 3:30 PM • Armenian foreign minister speaks on Atlantic Council online event on the Nagorno-Karabakh confli

Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) of the Committee asked the spy master if the NSA collected data on Americans. Clapper answered that the NSA did not knowingly “collect any type of data” on millions of Americans. Clapper’s answer was clearly untrue. However, it did not

ier that the NSA did not collect phone data in America. This warrant would allow the Guardian, in the best tradition of “Gotcha” journalism, to catch Clapper in an apparent lie. Continuing his string-pulling, he instructed Poitras not to show the FISA warrant to Greenwald until they were safely aboard the

on’t know, and, implicitly, a way to protect themselves.” And there were many documents in the Snowden breach that met these criteria, according to a National Security official at the Obama White House. The breach had happened on the watch of General Alexander, who headed both the NSA and the US Cyber Command, in 2

rs are creating a "perception hack," meaning they want the "perception that they're inside the system, and sow distrust," according to David Sanger. Clapper said his office's "first key judgment in 2016" was that "the initial objective was to sow doubt, discord, and discontent." Clapper added that Russi

ional security will play a 'key role' in the election, with Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, Voto Latino CEO and President Maria Teresa Kumar, and former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Henry McMaster; 3:30 PM • Armenian foreign minister speaks on Atlantic Council online event on the Nagorno-Karabakh confli

rs are creating a "perception hack," meaning they want the "perception that they're inside the system, and sow distrust," according to David Sanger. Clapper said his office's "first key judgment in 2016" was that "the initial objective was to sow doubt, discord, and discontent." Clapper added that Russia

onal security will play a `key role' in the election, with Democratic Rep. Karen Bass, Voto Latino CEO and President Maria Teresa Kumar, and former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Henry McMaster; 3:30 PM * Armenian foreign minister speaks on Atlantic Council online event on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

ed in the classified briefing he received, which emphasized a goal of general chaos." CNN (10/22, 83.16M) reports that in an appearance, former DNI James Clapper questioned the time of Ratcliffe's news conference. PROTESTS NYTimes Analysis: Meaning Of "Militia" Has Broadened. The New York Times (10/21, Mac

cerns raised" by CFIUS. US, Foreign Officials Discuss Cybersecurity, Threat Of China At Atlantic Future Forum. Reuters (10/21, Hepher) reports that National Security Advisor Robert O'Brien "accused China on Wednesday of trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine research from the West, casting it as a malign rival that wa

NSA “There are many things we do in intelligence that, if revealed, would have the potential for all kinds of blowback,” -- National Intelligence” — James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence In the Game of Nations, which is played at a level that often is not visible to public scrutiny, the great prize

ia but it would add to Putin’s personal credibility in advance of the Olympic Games in Russia. In mid-June, after US intelligence reported to Obama’s National Security adviser that Snowden was in contact with Russian officials in Hong Kong, the State Department explicitly told Lavrov that allowing Snowden to defect

that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies” in the fifth volume of his autobiography Closing the Ring, (Houghton Mifflin, 1951) 36. “Clapper answered that the NSA...”—the transcript was published by the Washington Post, January 29, 2014. For Clapper’s earlier closed door testimony, see Ste

Exclusive Interview,” New Yorker, January 21, 2014. December 28, 2014. “State Department revoked...”- Author’s interview with a former member of the National Security staff who cited State Department records. Also, Jen Psaki, the State Department spokeswoman, told AP "As is routine and consistent with US regulation

of the Breitbart lexicon, became the Trump team term of art: he’s poked the deep state bear. Names were put to this: John Brennan, the CIA director; James Clapper, the director of national intelligence; Susan Rice, the outgoing National Security Advisor; and Ben Rhodes, Rice’s deputy and an Obama favorite. Mov

s who got us in all these wars ... It’s not a deep bench.” Bannon said he’d tried to push John Bolton, the famously hawkish diplomat, for the job as National Security Advisor. Bolton was an Ailes favorite, too. “He’s a bomb thrower,” said Ailes. “And a strange little fucker. But you need him. Who else is good on I

ting ended, Priebus and Bannon thought they had bought some breathing room. Later that day, Sally Yates and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Crime and Terrorism subcommittee— and were greeted by a series of furious tweets from the president.

December. Hicks missed this point; later, it had to be highlighted for the president by Bannon. Three people in the Trump administration—the former National Security Advisor, the current attorney general, and the president’s senior adviser and son-in-law—had now been directly connected to the Russian diplomat. To