meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line there could have well been some close cooperation. but that doesn t mean they re going to tell us exactly when they re going to make the bust. this is basically an internal british law enforcement matter, it sounds like. yes, it s terrorists, but that does not mean they tell us, you know, within the hour or whatever, that they re going to start arresting people. but i mean, people here did know. it wasn t that they didn t know, it s just that he wasn t briefed, right? maybe they knew exactly when. maybe what they knew was just the british were undertaking an
when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some american help, some information from us somewhere down the line
of his job. i m not saying 24/7, but, james, let me ask you. when you were in a job like this, how would you prep for a press interview? i mean, everyone keeps saying that they re glad he wasn t in front of the television all the time, me too, but couldn t he have been learning about this in other ways before the tv news conferences? you re not sitting around in that job with a channel changer sipping coffee and going from channel to channel. i mean, i think first of all, jim clapper s a real pro. and he i think had a right to expect somebody on his staff who is working on press issues would bring him up to speed before a meeting with the press on the highlights of the day, since maybe he saw a morning briefing or something. but this is this is a public relations glitch. this is not evidence of something fundamentally wrong. we don t spy on the british. we re not in the business of collecting intelligence from them. if we have a cooperative endeavor, if they needed some
intelligence. a single official who reports directly to me will make our efforts more efficient and more effective. the new structure will help ensure greater information sharing among federal departments and agencies and also with appropriate state and local authorities. so this office was created on the recommendation of the 9/11 commission to solve one problem, information did not get where it needed to go. nine years later, we siege eem to still have the problem. what do you think is going on here? i m not sure this is an information sharing problem in the sense of the cia not talking enough to dia and so forth. i think this is more, really, kind of a public relations glitch. somebody on jim clapper s staff should have told him in the morning that during the wee
at a clip. here s president bush announcing the creation of the office of the director of national intelligence. a single official who reports directly to me will make our efforts more efficient and more effective. the new structure will help ensure greater information sharing among federal departments and agencies and also with appropriate state and local authorities. so this office was created on the recommendation of the 9/11 commission to solve one problem, information did not get where it needed to go. nine years later, we sieeem to still have the problem. what do you think is going on here? i m not sure this is an information sharing problem in the sense of the cia not talking enough to dia and so forth. i think this is more, really, kind of a public relations glitch. somebody on jim clapper s staff should have told him in the morning that during the wee