Q:How many questions about aliens do you get in a year, on average?
More today than I’ve received over my entire 55 years of service …
J.
Q:Mr. Clapper, is the television show X-Files based on true events? Are aliens real, have we contacted them? Are the things said on Ancient Aliens fact? Thank you for your time, sir.
The truth is out there. Recommend you start your search for it here:
https://www.cia.gov/news-information/blog/2016/take-a-peek-into-our-x-files.html
J.
Q:Does the President receive a daily intelligence briefing?
Yes he does, almost every day depending on his schedule and travel.
By way of history, the Presidential Daily Brief began with a simple, pocket-sized intell news bulletin for President Kennedy. They called it the “President’s Intelligence Checklist” or “Pickle” for short. However, when Lyndon Johnson succeeded JFK as President the “Pickle” was replaced by the Presidential Daily Briefing, a bigger printed product prepared by the CIA, which gave more-in-depth analysis of world events.
Ten years ago, under the Intell Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act – the PDB process moved from the CIA to the ODNI. Today, the PDB is a community-wide product and every intell agency and element has contributed material that’s made it to the President.
Today the President receives the briefing via iPad. We also supplement what the President receives in the PDB with in-person updates in the Oval Office.
J.
Q:James Clapper, what is your favourite James Bond film?
Of all the actors to play Bond I like Daniel Craig the best.
I’ve always liked Goldfinger and I enjoyed Skyfall.
That Adele theme song is terrific.
J.
Q:What is your favorite part of your job?
Two inextricable aspects come to mind:
1. The people. The women and men of the IC are the most dedicated, professional and intelligent people I have had the pleasure of working with. The intelligence professionals who sacrifice on a daily basis to ensure our national security are a constant inspiration to me.
2. The mission. I think every intelligence professional signs up for this challenging, yet rewarding vocation because they have an unwavering dedication to our nation’s safety and security.
J.
Q:The name, 'Intelligence Community' is a little deceiving. When average Joe reads those two words, we think of a group of really smart people. Could you, please, define more clearly for us dummies, what Intelligence Community refers to in government?
I agree that we’ve got a lot of smart people.
The Intelligence Community has a legal definition. It is described in law as to who is a part of the Intelligence Community. It is comprised of six agencies and eleven components who have as a common mission of collecting, sharing and disseminating intelligence on foreign threats.
Given the number of members of the IC we work hard to ensure that we share and coordinate our efforts.
J.
Good Morning , Tumblr
I’m glad to be able to spend some time with you this morning answering your questions. And boy do you have questions. Tumblr, you are REALLY interested in aliens (you all know that the Astronaut was last week, right?).
There’s no way we’ll get to them all but I’ll do my best to answer as many as I can. Probably not that many about UFOs though, sorry.
Some of your questions also dealt with some of the stories we’ve seen in the news over the last few years, ones that question the Intelligence Community’s surveillance activities and our commitment to protecting your privacy. To help address some of those questions thoroughly, I have with me today, our Civil Liberties Protection Officer Alex Joel.
And with that, let’s get started.
J.
Tumblr #AnswerTime with James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence for the United States of America
I’m James Clapper, the Director of National
Intelligence. As the DNI, I lead the 17
offices and agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community.
On Wednesday, February 17 at 10:30AM ET / 7:30AM PT I’ll be taking the reins of our Tumblr site, IC on the Record and answering your questions.
Ask DNI Clapper a Question
I’ve been in the intelligence business for more than 50 years and I’ve seen a lot of history in that time. The U.S. Intelligence Community has also seen more than its share of change. One of the most significant has been the need to be more open about what we do and how we do it.
Recently the Intelligence Community published Principles of Transparency and followed them with an expansive Implementation Plan to ensure those principles become a part of the way we do business throughout the community.
When we released the plan this past October, one of
the commitments that I personally made was to come here, to Tumblr, for a live
chat. A few years ago, I confess that I didn’t know what a Tumblr was. But like
I said, times change.
The IC is adapting to our world - even this
geezer.
So join me tomorrow for AnswerTime. I’m looking forward to it.
J.
DNI Releases Budget Figure for FY2017 Appropriations Requested for the National Intelligence Program
February 09, 2016
Consistent with Section 601 of the Implementing the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission Act of 2007, as amended (50 U.S.C. 3306), the Director of National Intelligence is disclosing to the public the aggregate amount of appropriations requested for Fiscal Year 2017.
The aggregate amount of appropriations requested for the FY 2017 National Intelligence Program is $53.5 billion, which includes funding requested to support Overseas Contingency Operations.
Any and all subsidiary information concerning the NIP budget, whether the information concerns particular intelligence agencies or particular intelligence programs, will not be disclosed. Beyond the disclosure of the NIP top-line figure, there will be no other disclosures of currently classified NIP budget information because such disclosures could harm national security. The only exceptions to the foregoing are for unclassified appropriations, such as for the Intelligence Community Management Account.
ODNI Releases 2016 Signals Intelligence Reform Progress Report
January 22, 2016
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence released today the 2016 Progress Report on Changes to Signals Intelligence Activities. The report acknowledges the second anniversary of Presidential Policy Directive 28 on Signals Intelligence Activities.
The 2015 report detailed the significant progress the U.S. government made in strengthening privacy and civil liberty protections, increasing transparency, and setting new limits on signals intelligence collection and use. That work has continued over the past year, and the ODNI is now reporting on the IC’s continued progress in implementing the requirements of PPD-28 as well as other transparency efforts discussed in the previous report.
The IC has continued to strengthen privacy protections of personal information, to enhance and institutionalize transparency, to declassify and release more information to the general public, to encourage dialogue with the American people and our foreign partners on our collection activities and transparency efforts, and to work with Congress to secure the passage of the USA FREEDOM Act. The impact and results of these efforts are described in the 2016 report.