Revelations about government surveillance compelled transparency, Director of...
Revelations about government surveillance compelled transparency, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Tuesday during a keynote at the GEOINT symposium in Tampa, where U.S. Central Command is based (http://bit.ly/1j25f8L). That need for transparency is the “major takeaway” from all…
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the debate, Clapper said, describing the declassification of many intelligence documents about phone and Internet surveillance from recent months. That decision came with a cost but was necessary, he said. “It hurts our capabilities because our adversaries go to school on that very transparency,” Clapper said. “We made the painful choice to declassify critical documents in the interest of being more transparent.” Clapper rebuffed the idea of leaving his job anytime soon and said he plans “to stick around” in his position as long as he can.