US intelligence director James Clapper resigns
Martin Mattshakreports:
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said today that he turned in his letter of resignation to President Barack Obama the night before and will not stay on through the presidential transition.
Clapper made the revelation during his opening statement in a rare open hearing of the House Intelligence Committee after the panel"s ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff, said he had heard rumors that the spy chief who took on the role in 2010 might stay on into the Trump administration.
So, guys we cant stand are resigning so that guys who scare the s**t out of us can take over.
Clapper recently was interviewed byWired:
Rather than worry whether his spies have gone too far, Clapper worries that leaders in Washington are ill-equipped to tackle the multiplying, metastasizing set of threats that face America. His annual appearances on Capitol Hillfilled with discussions about ISIS, cyberwar, North Koreas nuclear program, and new Russian and Chinese aggressionhave been so routinely pessimistic that he refers to his yearly global threat assessment as the Litany of Doom. Unpredictable instability has been a constant for this administration and will be, he says, for the next one too.
But in mere weeks, when a new presidential administration takes office, all those issues will be someone elses problem. For Clapper, the transition cant come soon enough. He has spent much of this year literally counting down the days he has left. Some mornings, when he briefs the commander in chief, known as Intelligence Customer Number One, President Barack Obama will ask him what the current tally is and then offer Clapper a fist bump.
Source: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/11/17/1600819/-Director-of-National-Intelligence-James-Clapper-resigns
