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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: 2) by n1 on Friday November 18 2016, @08:34PM
1)What I meant by that was... I do not believe either of the main candidates are evil but they are products of their environment, very different environments from what I can relate to. They cannot relate or empathize with me, I cannot with them, based on information publicly available.
2) Maybe she did mean that. I'm interested in an example of a time where she did "shoot for the moon" to pursue her political vision in the previous jobs and positions of influence she had. She's more of a 'go with the flow' kind of politician from what i've seen and heard.
I think my example of the Healthcare reform was a good example example of where "shoot for the moon" didn't work out anywhere near as well as it was intended by many supporters.
In the UK we're shooting for the moon right now, the country voted to leave the EU... What I can be for sure is we'll end up among the stars and no longer be a member of the EU... eventually...
The compromise may be continued contributions to the EU budget, continuation of immigration policies for EU nationals and continued obligation to various EU legislation or a combination of. And we're still likely to be a member of the EEA/ECHR/Council of Europe and a handful of other European legal institutions, because they're not actually the EU.
But never fear "Brexit means Brexit" and we'll definitely not be a member of the EU anymore. Got to shoot for the moon, but keep your cards close.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @08:51PM
> I'm interested in an example of a time where she did "shoot for the moon" to pursue her political vision in the previous jobs and positions of influence she had. She's more of a 'go with the flow' kind of politician from what i've seen and heard.
You frame that like you are expecting me to provide such an example. But what you are asking for is an example of your interpretation of the public/private position line, not my interpretation.
If you want an example of where she went into a negotiation with high ambitions and settled for a compromise that she could live with, well I think that's pretty much every single negotiation she has not walked away from because politics is the art of compromise.