James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, is joining a Washington think tank that focuses on national security and defense policies.
Clapper was named Tuesday as a distinguished senior fellow for intelligence and national security for the Center for a New American Security, the group announced Tuesday. He will also join the group’s board of advisers.
The group is led by Michele Flournoy, former undersecretary of Defense for policy under former President Barack Obama, and bills itself as an independent and nonpartisan research institution.
Clapper served as Obama’s director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017 and has come under fire for the National Security Administration’s bulk collection of data of millions of Americans’ phone calls. He also has taken center stage in Congress’ probe of Russian interference in the U.S election, testifying Monday that he still has not seen any evidence that Russian foreign nationals ever colluded with the Trump campaign.
He announced his plans to retire at the end of Obama’s term shortly after the election in November 2016.
