Top Spy: Intelligence on Ukraine ‘Not a Failure By Any Stretch’

By Jeryl Bier
Published March 11, 2014 2:06pm ET
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Top Spy: Intelligence on Ukraine ‘Not a Failure By Any Stretch’
  Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper is disputing the conventional wisdom on Russian incursion into the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine.  In an interview with WTOP Radio that is also posted on the DNI’s website, Clapper insisted that the intelligence community’s reading of the situation prior to Russia’s military intervention was “not a failure by any stretch”: […]

 

Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper is disputing the conventional wisdom on Russian incursion into the Crimean peninsula of Ukraine.  In an interview with WTOP Radio that is also posted on the DNI’s website, Clapper insisted that the intelligence community’s reading of the situation prior to Russia’s military intervention was “not a failure by any stretch”:

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