The parallelism between what the Donald Trump campaign was doing and saying and what the Russians were doing and saying was remarkably parallel, particularly when it came to attacks on Hillary Clinton, all Hillary Clinton alleged physical and mental maladies, and there was almost an echo chamber between the two.

James Clapper

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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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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.

James Clapper

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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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The history of the intelligence community is replete with violations of the trust of the American people.

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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.

James Clapper

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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.

James Clapper

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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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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.

James Clapper

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It is not the intelligence community's place to set and implement policy.

James Clapper

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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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The most pervasive cyber threat to the U.S. financial sector is from cyber criminals.

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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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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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What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that.

James Clapper

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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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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.

James Clapper

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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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In this job, I've found the less I talk, the better.

James Clapper

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ISIL particularly is very slick, very sophisticated, proselytizing and recruiting, and they are very astute users of social media.

James Clapper

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The number one foreign policy goal of Russia is control of the former Soviet space.

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