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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.
Trump as a private business owner is going to put up with a lot less nonsense like NSA data collection than any power-hungry politician would reaching the Whitehouse... this is just one of many examples to come showing true change, not just changing the mask over the current leader between red and blue as we have done in recent elections over the last sixteen years or so...
Not saying the NSA collecting is going to halt, but it is going to be reigned in.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Presidential appointees routinely submit their resignations when another party's candidate is moving into the Oval Office.
Nothing to see here, move along.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Lock him up!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Or maybe it's the first rat off the ship.
+5 Funny!
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Yes he resigned. But as explained in Top US intelligence official: I submitted my resignation (and probably elsewhere)
All members of an outgoing administration must submit a resignation at some point.
But every news outlet and internet troll seems to be falling over themselves to shout to the world that he resigned, as if this event actually means something.
Sure you could probably make a case for all sorts of things happening to him after he is out. But for fucks sake, his resignation is expected and required.
I am Slashdot. Are you Slashdot as well?
for Director of National Intelligence.
I say put Edward Snowden in the position.
I do not belong to the church of the lowercase 'i'
James Clapper, US Director of National Intelligence, Has Resigned
And nothing of value was lost.
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Um, that's exactly *why* he's posting as AC.
At least we know he won't leave the lights on.
That remains to be seen. Trump, aside from being economy-oriented, is also very security conscious (possibly because he understands that the sense of security affects markets); I see no real indication that he'd reign in the NSA in that.
Look back up at my post, now look back down, you're on the Internet. Now look back up. I'm a signature.
I prefer posts that act as a Rorschach test rather than explicitly stating direction... :-)
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Keeping this guy around and failing to reign in data collection excesses is a stain on Obama's legacy.
For someone claiming to drain the swamp he sure is bringing on board a lot of established Washington players....
Trump transition team announces 5-year lobbying ban for appointees
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
Another step for Trump's "Draining the Swamp" philosophy. Wonder what jaded business man or lobbyist will go in his place? Draining the swamp should be referred to as "Replacing the swamp with new swamp monsters"
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If Trump wants to take a pro-citizen stance on the NSA, he should pardon Snowden on his first day in office. It would make me a believer.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.
I think Trump was being honest about that. I figure he's going to run the economy so badly into the ground that American workers will illegally immigrate to Mexico looking for jobs, and eventually Mexico will get so fed up that they'll build a wall and pay for it....
Check out my sci-fi/humor trilogy at PatriotsBooks.
How do you refute a prediction about a future event without any evidence to confirm or deny?
And remember, Trump is pretty much unpredictable at this point.
Coming up next.... President Obama resignation to be effective Jan 20th
For someone claiming to drain the swamp he sure is bringing on board a lot of established Washington players....
Trump transition team announces 5-year lobbying ban for appointees
The ban is for appointees becoming lobbyists not the other way around (first sentence of article you included). At present the Obama administration has a 2-year wait for lobbyists to join the administration - don't know what Trump will do.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
How do you refute a prediction about a future event without any evidence to confirm or deny?
Protip: One sure-fire way that I have found to effectively refute a prediction is to wait and observe it not coming to pass.
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Wyden: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?
Clapper: No sir.
Wyden: It does not?
Clapper: Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect—but not wittingly.
-- Senate Intelligence Committee, March 12, 2013
Thank you, Senator Wyden.
Thank you, Edward Snowden.
What a huge lie that turned out to be. Clapper's resignation may be expected at this point, but still, it is a reminder of how unaccountable those agencies are.
Not saying the NSA collecting is going to halt, but it is going to be reigned in.
Hi, friendly Grammar Nazi here! No offense intended to anyone, so to my liberal friends I am a "grammarian." To my Breitbart-reading friends, I am a "grammar-conscious Nationalist Socialist German Workers' Party member."
The recent election has brought up the use of the phrase "reigning in" or "reining in" on Slashdot like seemingly never before. I figured I'd provide a bit of helpful guidance to reduce ambiguity.
To "reign" is to rule in the sense of "regnal/royal" or kingly/queenly control over a kingdom, state or prom court. It is generally used with the preposition "over," as in "to reign over the prom and orchestrate choruses of "NEEEERRRRDDDDSSSSSS!" at the people who couldn't get dates tonight but will later shame us all at the 20 year reunion."
To "rein" is to control an animal (e.g. a horse) tethered to a rider. When used in the phrase describing someone wanting to pull something back from its current pace, "rein in" (e.g. government growth, spending, post-prom unwanted pregnancies) this form is normally used.
Happy reining and/or reigning, depending on your intended expression and/or high school prom experience.
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Hopefully, Crapper will not get off Scots-free. Regardless of the valuable work he has, or has not, accomplished for the USA Federal Government, he failed everyone when he lied. He showed himself NOT to a good employee of the USA Federal Government, a patriot or a loyal citizen of the USA. IMHO, he has shown himself to be a dishonorable person. The lying should come with a consequence. Will Obama pardon him also?
Presidents can pardon people from future prosecution. Why do you think there is such a discussion in the Media about Obama pardoning Hill.