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Fmr. DNI James Clapper Warns That Biggest Threat to America Comes from Within
iGen Politics team Jill Wine-Banks and Victor Shi are joined by former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to break down the importance of recent spy cases and the risks posed by the events on 1/6. Then, they discuss the need for diversity in our intelligence services and their role in protecting us, before emphasizing the need for public service and defense of the common good.
Before becoming the DNI, James was a 3 star Air Force General and served as Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President George H.W. Bush, Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, and Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency under President George W. Bush, and the first Director of Defense Intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. James was awarded the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the US’s highest non-combat related military award, and the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal. After retiring at the end of the Obama administration in 2017, he joined the Washington, D.C.–based think tank the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) as a Distinguished Senior Fellow for Intelligence and National Security and wrote the New York Times bestseller “Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence,” published in 2018.
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