New Intelligence Chief Brings A Sense Of Humor To The Job

Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper with President Obama

New Intelligence Chief Clapper Brings Sense Of Humor To Serious Job -- Washington Post

Let no one accuse the nation's new director of national intelligence of lacking a sense of humor.

In a PowerPoint briefing of senior staff last week, retired Air Force Lt. Gen. James R. Clapper outlined his sober vision: to unite the traditionally separate missions of intelligence collection and analysis and to shrink and flatten the intelligence bureaucracy.

But he included a slide of the hood ornament from a Mack truck. Below the image was this phrase: "the only surviving sound-bite from 3+ hours." It was a wry reference to one of his more-memorable utterances from his July confirmation hearing, in which he pledged not to be a "titular figurehead or a hood ornament."

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My Comment: The U.S. intelligence community needs a lot of things .... a sense of humor to confront all of these issues is probably a good thing.