
The intelligence community continues to face budget uncertainty given the current fiscal environment, playing “havoc” with planning and management, the nation’s top intelligence official said on Wednesday.Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said he would be meeting Wednesday afternoon with the leaders of the government’s largest intelligence agencies to kick off planning for the 2017 budget but given the threat of budget sequestration in 2016, there remains “great uncertainty about its fate in Congress.”In addition to the threat of sequestration,…