Wash Post
Early
in his tenure as director of national intelligence, James Clapper could
sometimes be heard complaining, “I’m too old for this [expletive]!” He
has now served almost six years as America’s top intelligence official,
and when I asked him this week how much longer he would be in harness,
he consulted his calendar and answered with relief, “Two hundred
sixty-five days!”
Clapper, 75, has worked in intelligence for 53
years, starting when he joined the Air Force in 1963. He’s a crusty,
sometimes cranky veteran of the ingrown spy world, and he has a
perspective that’s probably unmatched in Washington. He offered some
surprisingly candid comments — starting with a frank endorsement of
President Obama’s view that the United States can’t unilaterally fix the
Middle East. 
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