Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifies at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington February 16, 2011. REUTERS/Jason Reed
Nation Faces Many Threats, Intelligence Chief Says -- US Department of Defense
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4, 2014 – Never in his more than 50 years of intelligence experience has the nation been beset by more crises and threats from around the world than it now faces, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper said today during a House hearing on worldwide threats.
The long list of global threats includes terrorism, sectarian violence and radical extremism, Clapper said.
“And there are many other crises and threats around the globe,” he added, “to include the spillover of the Syria conflict into neighboring Lebanon and Iraq, the destabilizing flood of refugees in Jordan, Turkey and Lebanon — now about 2.5 million people, essentially one of the largest humanitarian disasters in a decade.”
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