Charles E. Schumer U.S. Senator from New York Washington, Dec. 10, 2007 To the Editor: The director of national intelligence is asking Congress to help him "spy on Al Qaeda".
When James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, was asked during a Congressional hearing in March whether the N.S.A. was collecting any information on "millions or hundreds of millions of Americans," Clapper replied "No, sir," adding, "not wittingly".
That wall is the scene of the melancholy climax of the first movie made from a le Carré novel, Martin Ritt's "Spy Who Came in From the Cold" (1965), in which a British intelligence agent named Alec Leamas Richard Burtonn) is asked by his masters to pretend to defect to the other side.
The director of Chile's national intelligence agency is asking President Michelle Bachelet to permit police to send undercover agents to investigate suspicious groups.
Or maybe they will realize that they can't lie with impunity; maybe the next time James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, is asked a direct question in a Senate hearing, he will wonder, before offering a blatant falsehood in response, if he might get caught.
James Hohmann at the Washington Post noted that at Monday's Senate hearing, former director of national intelligence James Clapper "was asked about a news report that Britain's intelligence service first became aware in late 2015 of suspicious interactions between Trump advisers and Russian intelligence agents.
So, the intelligence officer, was asked, how did you know all that?
Diaz and the intelligence officers were asked to show how 12 detainees from Kuwait (whose lawyers were challenging the visiting rules in court) might pull off such a plot.
When the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, was asked if the NSA collected "any type of data at all" on a large number of Americans, he simply lied.Mr Obama laments that the debate over these issues did not follow "an orderly and lawful process", but the administration often blocked such a course.
Mr. Negroponte's staff told Congress of his proposal last week, after a review of satellite budgets that included a meeting in August where officials of the National Reconnaissance Office and other intelligence agencies were asked to make their case for continuing the future imagery system.
Various French media are reporting that, shortly after the story first broke, the domestic intelligence services were asked to assess whether the case against Cahuzac stood up.
