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The nation's top intelligence official on Wednesday evening submitted his letter of resignation, ensuring that President-elect Donald Trump will have the option to build his own network of intel leaders.
"I submitted my letter of resignation last night, which felt pretty good," Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told a House Intelligence Committee hearing on Thursday morning. "I have 64 days left and I would have a hard time with my wife for anything past that."
Clapper has long promised to leave his job at the end of President Obama's term in office, so his resignation was expected.
Still, the formal resignation brings the longtime intelligence official's government career to a close and leaves a key vacancy for Trump to fill.
Edward Snowden for Director of National Intelligence.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @01:58PM
This is certainly a position where you want to bring in someone who knows what they're doing. "Drain the swamp" can run perilously close to "don't know what they're doing".
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @02:53PM
More important than having someone who knows what they're doing is having someone is doesn't want to violate the constitutional rights of hundreds of millions of Americans and even more foreigners.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @03:04PM
Constitutional rights? What constitutional rights? Most of the US population lives in a Border Zone where you have no rights, constitutional or otherwise! [aclu.org]