James R. Clapper Quotes
There will be no more blabbing secrets to the media.
The leaks not only did not stop, but they became worse than ever.
James R. Clapper, U. S. Director of National Intelligence, Memo to All Staff Upon His Assumption of the Position, 2010
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CREEP in the Nixon Campaign
The “wrong” people to Helms. Were Americans who disagreed with his methods and politics—especially members of Congress who wanted to make the CIA more accountable for its actions. If nothing is ever written down and everything is secret, there is no practical way of holding the agency accountable in a democracy. Helms was later convicted to perjury for lying to Congress.
Privacy was a much more important value then and for Smith and most contemporaries there should be NO compromising records kept at all. Keeping records secret was itself an unacceptable compromise.
In the modern media age, there is intense pressure on peace negotiators to reveal progress, problems, reactions, suggestions that are made by the parties to the peace talks. Rumors and premature public knowledge of the details of peace talks often can undermine and sometimes destroy and progress that was being made.
James Robert Clapper Jr. is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is the former Director of National Intelligence. Clapper has held several key positions within the United States Intelligence Community. He served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) from 1992 until 1995. He was the first director of defense intelligence within the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and simultaneously the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. He served as the director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) from September 2001 until June 2006.
