President Barack Obama plans to nominate retired Gen. James Clapper to be the new director of national intelligence, a senior U.S. defense official confirmed to CNN on Friday.
Clapper, a Pentagon intelligence official, would replace Dennis Blair, who resigned at the end of last month.
– CNN's Barbara Starr contributed to this report
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Gen. Clapper,
Thank you for making such a great product.
For years i struggled with getting out of bed to turn off my lights, and to be honest, some nights I left them on.
But your product saved the day!
Good luck on the new job.
Dear General,
Thanks for keeping penacilin going strong!
Your biggest fans,
Jeresy Shore
We have too many intelligence agencies. And not enough intelligence!
Don't know the man, but says he's a formal General from the United States of America and selected by the President.
Politics aside, show some respect for intelligence, are Armed Forces, and President.
Show some respect for proper English. "are Armed Forces".... really? What are you, one of those Tea Baggers?
As the former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Gen. Clapper is the best and most qualified individual to be the next DNI. He will do a great job!
To think that he was once called Major Clapper...I bet the enlisted folks had a good time with that one...
Congrats General Clapper – you've got your work cut out for you.
Gen. Harper
Congratts. I Trust that you will keep us all safe.
General Clapper is a great choice. He has one of the broadest breaths of intelligece community experience of any senior government official.
I am sure General Crapper will be a wonderful edition to the Obama team.
I am getting that burning sensation already...............
Reminds me of my time in Subic in the 80's.
Mabuhay Pinays
Former General James Jones is our Secretary of Defense. He is also a former board member of Chevron Oil. Coincidently, Condi Rice was also a former board member of Chevron Oil. Maybe the 2 administrations have more in common than anyone realizes, that is, except for big oil. How did it come to this?
Hey Craig,
Not to insult your intelligence but instead of the verb 'are' you should have used the pronoun 'our'
This is a guy who is a warrior and a digital media scientist...think about it! When they talk about someone looking down and following your every move from a satellite...this is your guy! Finally, maybe we have someone who can not only find the dots, but connect them, and 'eliminate' them.
In the other realm, I don't know this guys relationship with the CIA, so that's a very important component that can 'never' be overlooked in the intelligence community, which comprise some 16 agencies. Unless this guy has, or makes, a 'clear' relationship with Leon Panetta and the 'field agents', US intelligence will continue to fail and only become a reactionary agent instead of a means of prevention.
However, I cannot see this guy working for anyone else but Jim Jones, the DNS, which is one step to the presidents ear, so I expect he will have input, if not authority to 'act' on the part of the president.
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if clapper sits in the crapper to long will he get a crammper?