Clapper frets over past damage, present shortcomings, future threats to US intelligence

Friday, July 20, 2018 - 00:13 in Mathematics & Economics

Politics can create strange bedfellows, and political scandals can create unexpected celebrities. After a 55-year career deep inside U.S. intelligence, James Clapper has recently found something akin to notoriety, first as co-author of the famous Oct. 7, 2016, declaration that Russia was trying to tip the scales of the 2016 presidential election, and now as one of a handful of top former intelligence officials who have taken their criticisms of President Trump and concerns over a possible conspiracy with Russia to the public. The son of a U.S. Army signals intelligence officer in World War II, Clapper carried on that service tradition by joining the Air Force in 1963, rising to lieutenant general and becoming director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until his retirement from uniformed service in 1995. But Clapper’s vast expertise and respected leadership prompted both Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama to press him back into...

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