James R. Clapper
Robert James Clapper ( born March 14, 1941 in Fort Wayne ) is a retired general of the United States Air Force and currently Director of National Intelligence (DNI ) of the United States.
Life
Clapper was born in Indiana, his father was Lieutenant Robert James Clapper, his grandfather Episcopal priest.
James Clapper has after the bachelor's degree in political science (1963 ) also reached the Master ( 1970). In addition, he is honorary doctorate Would Strategic Intelligence for the National Intelligence University in Washington, DC excellent, where he also taught as an assistant professor. 2006/ 07 he taught Practice of Intelligence ( something like: " Applied espionage" ) at the private Georgetown University.
Career
Military career
Clapper served total number of 1963 until 1995. Originally Clapper wrote for the U.S. Marine Corps a. He changed, however, within a year to the U.S. Air Force Reserve Officer Training program.
The University of Maryland, he left with the rank of sub- lieutenant. During his first command of the third division of the 6994th Security Squadron, stationed at the base in Tan Son Nhut (near Ho Chi Minh City), he flew during the Indochina War, a total of 73 support missions over Laos and Cambodia - his only combat- related missions.
From 1985, he filled posts for intelligence activities, at this time he held the rank of brigadier general, as this he commanded three major units:
- The armed forces of the United States in Korea, 1985-1987
- The Pacific Command of the United States, 1987-1989
- The Strategic Air Command, 1989/90
After two years as general in charge of Intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force, he became in 1992 director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (D / DIA) In 1995 he took his career ended.
Activities in the private sector
Clapper became a board member of various military service, mainly for Booz Allen Hamilton, but also for SRA International and Vredenburg.
Intelligence director
From 2001 to 2006 Clapper headed the National Geospatial -Intelligence Agency (D / NGA).
It was proposed on June 5, 2010 by President Barack Obama as director of national intelligence, and confirmed by the Senate on August 5, 2010. As such, he said during the surveillance and espionage affair in May 2013 before the congressional committee for intelligence services from that the NSA illegally collecting phone data of U.S. citizens. Less than a month later, he then published a document which admitted the opposite: Metadata phone calls and equipment are stored and evaluated. Although the international media echo a resignation Clappers called and discussed anticipated criminal penalties he is still in office.