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James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned (thehill.com)
Reader cold fjord writes: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, resigned last night. Clapper spent 30 years in military intelligence at the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. He was selected to be the Director of National Intelligence in 2010 with responsibility for 17 US intelligence agencies. Clapper was DNI during the monumental Snowden leaks of documents from NSA and various allied intelligence agencies as well as the release by WikiLeaks of the documents provided by (at the time) Private Bradley Manning. Besides the Snowden and Manning leaks, Clapper was engulfed in controversy over testimony to Congress in which he is alleged to have lied about NSA data collection in responding to a question from Senator Wyden. Clapper had previously stated he would leave at the end of the Obama administration. Clapper's resignation clears the way for incoming president-elect Trump to appoint his own Director of National Intelligence.
Love watching the rats scurry as Trump the exterminator is brought in to drain the swamp.
For someone claiming to drain the swamp he sure is bringing on board a lot of established Washington players....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
We pay Mexico several hundred million per year to patrol their side of the border.
Nope. You must have gotten that statistic from fake news. The 200 million figure seems to match the figure for all security/military (non-economic) aid, only a small portion of which is earmarked for their northern border, and which was probably a lot less this year..
Total foreign aid, some of which boosts our own economy in indirect ways, is in the $400-$500 million range.
Even if we take Trump's own underestimation of $8 billion and canceled all foreign aid to Mexico, which would cost us dearly in the economy, it would take 20 years to make up that much money.
Someone had to do it.