DNI: Fiscal Challenges and Snowden Leaks Created ‘Perfect Storm’

Homeland Security Today: With a rapidly evolving and increasingly complex security environment, the United States faces its most diverse set of challenges in the last fifty years, according to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.

The recently issued “National Intelligence Strategy 2014” (NIS) highlighted various “dangerous, pervasive and elusive threats”—terrorism, transnational crime, unauthorized intelligence disclosures and budget constraints—from both state and non-state actors that will challenge American interests at home and abroad.

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