Top Spy Clapper Jokes About Intelligence Gathering: ‘Immaculate Collection’

Published September 19, 2014 10:24am ET



Director of National Intelligence James Clapper peppered his Thursday speech to an intelligence community summit with humor, drawing laughter from his audience nearly a dozen times. Clapper began his talk to the Intelligence National Security Alliance (INSA)/Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) meeting by telling the crowd he was “somewhat of an ‘INSA hipster’ I was into INSA before it was cool.” But later in his talk, Clapper spoofed the federal government’s data collection and privacy controversies of the past few years with a long set up and punchline:

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