The outgoing director of national intelligence, James Clapper, offered something short of an apology to President-Elect Trump, criticizing leaks from the intelligence community while assuring Trump that America's spies were willing to work with him. The recent spate of leaks regarding Russia's supposed hack of the U.S. election and salacious information that the Putin government had compiled on Trump has set the president elect against elements of U.S. intelligence – to the detriment of both. Politico: "I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security," Clapper said of the information that has come out since last week's intelligence briefing. Clapper’s statement represented a dramatic turn of events only 24 hours after initial leaks about the intelligence leaders having told Trump of the dossier. And while...(Read Full Post)