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Clapper Says Intelligence Community Will Take ‘Higher Risks’ Amid Sequestration

Gally Articola

Friday, September 13th, 2013

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Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said yesterday that the Intelligence Community (IC) will have to make “strategic decisions” about cutting costs and accepting “higher risks” as it faces another year of sequestration. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. Photo: ODNI. “A lot of people thought [sequestration] was a one off--that we’d only do it for one year,” he said. “We made a lot of decisions the first year of sequestration thinking that it would only be one year. But…

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