Quotes by James Clapper - Page 1

To the extent that anyone has leverage over North Korea, it's China.
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North Korea
Extent
Leverage
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It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.
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Policy
Implement
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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.
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Foreign Policy
Russia
Soviet
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The most pervasive cyber threat to the U.S. financial sector is from cyber criminals.
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Criminals
Cyber
Financial
Pervasive
Sector
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The Russians have a long history of interfering in elections - theirs and other people's.
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History Long People
Russians
Elections
Interfering
Long History
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I think the notion of getting the North Koreans to denuclearize is probably a lost cause.
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Notion
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When I was commissioned in the Air Force, I was committed to the institution for a career.
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Air Force
Committed
Commissioned
Institution
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It's certainly not helpful when the commander in chief is a critic of the intelligence community.
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Intelligence Community
Chief
Commander
Critic
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What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.
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Citizens
Nsa
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The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.
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Intelligence Community
American People
Replete
Violations
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For the record, in my long career, I've never knowingly exposed classified information in an inappropriate manner.
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Classified Information
Exposed
Inappropriate
Long Career
Manner
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A leak is an unauthorized disclosure of classified or sensitive information that is improper under any circumstance.
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Disclosure
Sensitive
Circumstance
Leak
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This is strictly personal opinion, not company policy, but I do think that we could do with having a USIA on steroids.
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Strictly
Steroids
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ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.
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Astute
Slick
Social Media
Sophisticated
Users
Social Media Media Social
Particularly
Recruiting
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I have always accepted intelligence was an honorable profession. We are all mindful of the need to comply with our moral values and the law.
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Accepted
Honorable
Moral Values
Profession
Comply
Mindful
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I think the founding fathers, in their genius, created a system of three co-equal branches of government and a built-in system of checks and balances.
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Branches
Checks
Founding
Balances
Checks And Balances
Fathers
Founding Fathers
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Part of our obligation is to ensure that policymakers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.
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National Security
Obligation
Affect
Ensure
Fullest
Policymakers
Provided
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In the future, we will probably see cyber operations that change or manipulate electronic information to compromise its integrity instead of simply deleting the access to it.
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Compromise
Cyber
Manipulate
Operations
Electronic
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I did get a letter from the speaker of the House urging - enjoining me not to brief Secretary Clinton, and lots of cards and letters from people about not briefing Mr. Trump.
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Cards
Clinton
Letters
Secretary
Me People House
Brief
Me People Cards
Mr
Letter
Speaker
Secretary Clinton
Urging
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The first week in intelligence school, you learn there are only two conditions in life. There is policy success, or there is intel failure. There is no other condition in life.
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Life Success Failure
Condition
Intel
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The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.
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Artificial
Creation
Colonial
Somewhat
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I've long maintained during my 50-plus year career in intelligence that leaks endanger national security, they compromise sources, methods, and tradecraft, and they can put assets' lives at risk.
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Assets
Compromise
Leaks
National Security
Endanger
Maintained
Sources
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I had served in the Republic of Korea in the early '80s while I was on active duty as a director of intelligence for U.S. forces Korea, and kind of followed developments on the peninsula ever since.
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Active
Republic
Director
Developments
Early
Followed
Forces
Peninsula
Served
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When the Internet was first - as an experiment and then when it - as it mushroomed, security was never an integral part of what the Internet was designed for. I mean, it just didn't - wasn't a consideration.
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Consideration
Designed
Integral
Integral Part
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In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
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Chelsea
Enterprise
Human Beings
Idiosyncrasies
Snowden
Beings
Composed
Edward
Guarantee
In The End
Large
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Although we must be prepared for a catastrophic large-scale strike, a cyber armageddon, the reality is that we have been living with a constant barrage of cyberattacks for some time. The trend, I believe, will continue.
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Armageddon
Be Prepared
Constant
Cyber
Large Scale
Time Believe I Believe
Catastrophic
Strike
Trend
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The Russians are bent on establishing both a presence in the Western Hemisphere, and they're looking for opportunities to expand military cooperation: sell equipment, air bases, as well as intelligence gathering facilities.
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Air
Bases
Bent
Cooperation
Equipment
Gathering
Hemisphere
Military
Western
Russians
Sell
Establishing
Expand
Facilities
Opportunities
Presence
Western Hemisphere
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The term 'Muslim Brotherhood'... is an umbrella term for a variety of movements: in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam.
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Brotherhood
Egypt
Islam
Perversion
Secular
Umbrella
Variety
Al
Largely
Movements
Qaeda
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I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event.
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Decision Making
Pentagon
Permanent
Arrangement
Event
Intended
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A key player with respect to sanctions is, of course, China. And so, if a military option were to be exercised, then obviously we would play very heavily in that process. But that's not a decision, fortunately, that the intelligence community makes.
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China
Decision
Intelligence Community
Military
Process
Sanctions
Option
Fortunately
Obviously
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I do think - the metaphor I always use - it's the role of intelligence community to stay down in the engine room and shovel that intelligence coal, and people on the bridge get to decide where to drive the ship and how fast and how to arrange all the deckchairs.
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Coal
Community
Intelligence Community
Metaphor
Drive
Arrange
Bridge
Stay
Fast
Engine
Room
Role
Shovel
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Typically, people in the intelligence community are just going to kind of hunker down and do their job, do their mission. And I believe - I have great faith in them. I think they will continue to serve up truth to power even if the power chooses not to listen to the truth.
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Great Faith
Intelligence Community
Chooses
Mission
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There is no requirement whatsoever for a security clearance for a candidate. The mere fact that a candidate is anointed by its party at a convention - that is all that is required. And it's not up to me or the administration to determine candidate suitability for these briefings.
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Administration
Briefing
Clearance
Determine
Mere
Candidate
Convention
Required
Whatsoever
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The reason that ISIL was so successful, yes, it had to do with their capabilities and prowess on the battlefield, but they were dealing with a receptive constituency in northern Iraq because of the intense hatred of the Maliki government, which of course is imposing the Shia view on them.
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Imposing
Intense
Prowess
Receptive
Battlefield
Capabilities
Dealing
Northern
View
Yes
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The Intelligence Community Assessment concluded first that President Putin directed and influenced a campaign to erode the faith and confidence of the American people in our presidential election process. Second, that he did so to demean Secretary Clinton, and third, that he sought to advantage Mr. Trump.
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Confidence
Advantage
Assessment
Clinton
Election
Intelligence Community
Presidential
Presidential Election
Putin
Secretary
Trump
American People
Mr
Campaign
Concluded
Directed
Influenced
Secretary Clinton
Sought
Third
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If ISIL were to substantially increase the priority it places on attacking the West rather than fighting to maintain and expand territorial control, then the group's access to radicalized Westerners who have fought in Syria and Iraq would provide a pool of operatives who potentially have access to the United States and other Western countries.
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Attacking
Pool
Syria
Territorial
Expand
Fought
Maintain
Potentially
Substantially
Western Countries
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