James Clapper On Donald Trump’s Criticism: Difference Between Skepticism & Disparagement | NBC News — Transcript
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- 0:00who who actually is the benefactor of
- 0:03someone who is about to become
- 0:04commander-in-chief trashing the
- 0:06intelligence community. I think there is
- 0:09an important distinction here between um
- 0:13healthy skepticism which policymakers to
- 0:17include policy maker number one uh
- 0:19should always have for intelligence but
- 0:21I think there's a difference between
- 0:24um skepticism and
- 0:27uh disparagement
- 0:30and I assume that the biggest
- 0:32benefactors of the American people
- 0:35having less confidence in the
- 0:36intelligence community are in fact the
- 0:39actors you have named today. Iran, North
- 0:42Korea, China, Russia and ISIS.
- 0:48The intelligence community is uh not
- 0:52perfect. Uh we are an organization of
- 0:55human beings and we're prone sometimes
- 0:58to make uh errors. I I don't think
- 1:02uh the intelligence community gets the
- 1:04credit it's due for
- 1:08um what it does day in and day out to
- 1:09keep this nation safe and secure and the
- 1:11number of plots in just one example
- 1:15terrorist plots that have been thwarted.
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