Festival of books in nashville. Youre the end of the month, we will be covering to book festivals on the same weekend. From our nations heartland, it is the wisconsin book festival in madison. On the east coast, the boston book festival. At the start of november, we will be in portland, work and followed by the National Book awards in new york city. At the end of november, we are live for the 18th year in a row from florida for the Miami Book Fair international. That is a few of the fairs and festivals. On wednesday, director of National Intelligence, James Clapper spoke at the second nationaltelligence and security summit. He gave an assessment of the state of the u. S. Intelligence and what needs to be done in the future. This is just over one hour. [applause] mr. Clapper we have done more than that. It is a testimony to the importance you attach to this conference. I would like to echo joes comments regarding our cea. Nership with af have and continue to enjoy working with the organization and look forward to continuing this partnership again next year. Is no better place to begin our exploration of the state of u. S. Intelligence then with an address from director of National Intelligence, James Clapper. The fourth director of National Intelligence and the leader of all United States intelligence. Inector clapper has served United States intelligence for over 50 years. With more than 30 of those years in uniform. Ofhas served as the director two National Intelligence agencies, the dia, and the nga. He has been the undersecretary of defense for intelligence. And as a private sector executive, leading industry support to the Intelligence Community. There is no Intelligence Leader past or present with director clappers death and breath of multiplee across intelligence domains. And in both the private and public sector. I say that with all due humility as the first director of National Intelligence and i marvel at the wisdom and experience that jim has brought to his job which i believe has really enhanced the standing and of the ood and i. And i think it is also important that unlike his predecessors, he has managed to spend a good bit ,f time on this tour of duty more than five years at this point. His career and many accomplishments serve as an example of the power of both Intelligence Community egration and public Publicprivate Partnerships. When director clapper completes his remarks, i will moderate a questionandanswer session and look forward to including many of your questions as well. As was mentioned earlier, write them down, and they will be collected from you by the conference staff. Directorhonor to have James Clapper with us today. Himse join me in welcoming to the 2015 intelligence and National Security summit. [applause] director clapper it is great to be back on the stage with this integrated group. I spent the last five years preaching the gospel of intelligence integration and it has been my major theme during reasonre and it is the that the office exists. It is what the 9 11 commission advocated and it is what what what our act legislated. Perhaps, my successor will not get to talk about it. These twong, seeing it makes meether, feel like intelligence integration is catching on. Joe has a ringnd to it. Either a singing duo or selling car parts together. For the rest of this speech and in the spirit of integration i will refer to you jointly as mojo. Thank you both for the invitation to kick off this great summit and for nurturing the spirit of working together. When i was here last year, i spoke about our new National Strategy quite literally on the day that our publication was rolling off of the presses. This year, we do not have quite obviously we do not have anything quite obvious to talk about. What mojoed to read expected me to talk about. Here is what the website says i would be discussing. U. S. Intelligence is an essential part of u. S. Power and it perhaps has never been more powerful than today given advances in technology. With great power comes great responsibility. Line really struck me. With great power comes great responsibility. Apparently, mojo thinks i am spiderman. I amthe transparency not. Ask my staff and you can and they will tell you that i look more like spideys uncle ben. I feel like i have a personal connection to the web sling your. That line was used to introduce a spideys first comic book appearance in 1962. In the spring of 1963, just as i was starting off in the intelligence business, marvel published the first issue of the amazing spiderman. Coincidence . Yes. All kidding aside, we have a lot in common with spiderman. We constantly have to worry about covert concerns, someone matching our secret identities to our every day, normal lives. But the spiderman and his alter ego are known for their genius, level intellect. Spiderman is known for his superhuman strength. Leftple of days a week, i weights in our office gym and my spotter says i am pretty strong for a geezer. Roomvaluation of my weight prowess may be just a little bit biased. Spiderman is known for his precognitive spidey sense. Many of our customers expect us to be clairvoyant. Especially when it comes to world events. Spidey is known as the web sling or because he shoots his lighter wet from devices on his wrists. Because he shoots spiderwebs from devices on his wrists. There are even similarities between superman and the icy when it comes to governance. Stanley and marble created spiderman and still published spidey comics. Sony pictures has created control on film. Our in someone elses Cabinet Department. Integrating priorities and resources across the icy is not easy. Particularly when it comes to following in the different laws, rules, that reside in each one of those Cabinet Departments. While we are listing similarities, do not forget that Sony Pictures and i have a less than friendly interaction with north korea. Spidey fan hopes that spiderman has a role in the upcoming movie. I will set aside as comparisons for a few minutes because those website,nces on the the ones posted just under my picture, make a good point. Intelligence is a powerful and essential tool for our National Security enterprise. Comes greatower responsibility. Those statements have been true as long as i can remember and i can remember back a long way. My dad was in the sick it nt business ingi world war ii. As a consequence of traveling around the globe with him, i grew up on intelligent sites and in antenna farms all over the world. Of course back then we didnt talk about intelligence publicly. Five decades later, thats of course changed. In fact, thats changed a lot just over the past three years. I admit, because of my experience growing up in the sigint business, and my five decades or so in intel, that the kind of transparency were engaged in now almost is genetically antithetical to me. As i think back, which im want to do these days, air force Second Lieutenant jim clapper in 1963 would be shocked by the level of detail that we talk about, specifically in intelligence activities in general in 2015. Thats been one of my major takeaways the past few years. Yes, we have to protect our secrets, our sources and methods, our trade craft. But we have to be more transparent about the things that we can talk about. Because now the American Public expects us to talk about how were using the power of u. S. Intelligence responsibly. And again with great power comes great responsibility. Thats a lesson i personally believe we didnt learn quickly enough and that we certainly include mess. So thats why more and more were discussing our work, to correct misunderstandings and to try to help people grasp what we do. To show that were worthy of americas trust. And to prove that we make worthwhile contributions to the security of americans and our friends and allies around the world. Its why over the past two years the community has declassified more than 5,000 pages of documents about our work and importantly about the oversight of our work, that which is conducted by all three branches of the government. And by publishing these declassified documents on our tumbr site, i. C. On the record, and pushing them out on facebook and twitter, theyve reached millions of people in the u. S. And around the world. That includes of course our adversaries who also have learned a lot from our transparency. But i think weve come down on the side of transparency is worth that cost. We declassified these documents to show that we follow the law and when we do make mistakes, we do our best to live up to that line stan lee wrote just a few months before i joined the intelligence business, with great power comes great responsibility. We understand the truth in that line, its why the president challenged us in his speech of january last year to formalize privacy protections for our signals intelligence efforts at home and abroad. And to be more transparent about how we implement those protections. This past january we published a comprehensive report answering the challenges the president publicly gave us in 2014. We also supported the u. S. A. Freedom act, which authorizes increased reporting of how the i. C. Exercises some of its authorities. This past february, we published the principles of intelligence transparency, and we stood up an i. C. Transparency working group with senior representatives from all over the i. C. And their purpose is to i meet with these great people to transform these principles into action. I want to talk about those four Transparency Principles just for a moment. Theyre fairly simple. One, provide appropriate transparency to enhance public understanding of the Intelligence Community. That principle says, what we ought to be transparent about and why. Two, be proactive and clear in making information publicly available. Of course, when we can. And that gets into how we should be transparent. Three, protect information about intelligence sources methods and activities. And, four, align i. C. Roles, resources, processes and policies to support transparency implementation. So, the tenants three and four essentially say that protecting our trade craft, our sources, methods and activities is an individual responsibility. For each person who holds a security clearance. Well, transparency is an institutional responsibility for the i. C. As an enterprise. If a member of the Intelligence Community, blue badge or green badge, comes across information she thinks we should make public, we have processes in place already to review it for declassification. And if someone comes across something she thinks were doing wrong, we have lots of avenues to report that activity. Including legitimate avenues for whistleblowing. To make sure our work force knows their rights and responsibilities on these issues, weve been publicizing how to recommend something for declassification, how to properly blow a whistle, and what their protections are if they do so. Were also increasingly reaching out to the American Public. As our transparency principle two says, we need to be proactive and clear with transparency. Because were trying to help the public understand what we do in their name. Its why weve declassified and published so many significant documents. The tumblr site has a review. Thats a big reason why this spring we sent our National Intelligence counsel to the south by southwest festival to engage the Diverse Group of people there and get them to help us identify themes to include in our next Global Trends report. Its also why this summer we published a huge tranche of documents wed collected during a raid, probably later than we should, but we got to it. By the way, our publication of bin ladens book shelf gave us about as much web traffic in just two days, 750,000 site visits, and two million page views, as our website received in all of 2013 and 2014 put together. And if you ran a Google Search for bin laden, di. Gov was the number two search behind only wikipedia. Tomorrow ill be on the hill once again in an open hearing testifying on cyberthreats and cyberintelligence. Of course transparency can help us with mission two, particularly when were able to use imagery publicly. In 2013 we showed how syria had used chemical weapons on its own people. In 2014 we helped make public a diplomatic case against russia for obfuscating what happened to Malaysian Airlines flight 17. We also shared imagery to help people in need. As we pass the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina a couple of weeks ago, i found myself thinking about the work n. G. A. Did back when i was director. In the aftermath of the hurricane, admiral allen reached out to n. G. A. For help. In figuring out what precisely the storm had done to new orleans and to the state of louisiana and the state of mississippi. It had decimated so much property and rerouted the waterways and blocked the ports. The general helping him with Situational Awareness in managing the response to this disaster. The coast guard and n. G. A. Ended up working very closely together. And in the process, i got to know him pretty well. I consider him both a personal hero and a close friend. This spring my wife, sue, and i had dinner with thad and his wife, pam. And as old war horses are want to do, we reminisced and told war stories. I found out that among the few mementos that thad and pam displayed in their home is a topographical, three dimensional map of new orleans given to him by n. G. A. When he retired. And he recalled fondly the superb work n. G. A. Did after hurricane rita and katrina, as well as in the aftermath of the b. P. Oil spill. That was all work that mattered. That directly made a difference to american citizens. And to people who were on the ground and remember it. As we push forward, transparency is initiatives, weve been able to help with tragedies and natural disasters around the world. Last summer and fall, the i. C. And n. G. A. Had a huge and largely unsung impact on the control and containment of ebola in west africa. By providing open data on human geographies to the countries and n. G. O. s. And for the first time ever, setting up a publicly available website for disaster support. This spring, n. G. A. A and the i. C. Put the lessons we learned into action after the earthquake in nepal. Producing damage assessment, reporting on the operating status of air fields, providing estimates on internally displaced people and displaying studies of transportation routes. We save lives and set a community on the other side of the world on the road to recovery. Those are things the Intelligence Community has done that im pretty proud of. Once we made a commitment to be transparent, doing these things, helping people in need, were easy decisions, easy commitments to make. I think Going Forward were going to have to be more transparent in talking about hard decisions and difficult choices. Because were in a difficult business, in a challenging time. So this morning i started my speech with a comparison of superficial similarities between the i. C. And spiderman. I think theres one other thing that the Intelligence Community has in common with spidey and more directly and more distinctly with peter parker. This gets to the heart of why spiderman has been one of marvels most popular characters since the first issue of the amazing spiderman. 52 years ago, the same year i started in intel, before spidey, most comic books depicted the external struggle between the superhero and the supervillain. It was superman versus lex luther with kryptonite. With peter parker for the first time, comic readers saw a heros inner struggles. They shared his experiences of trying to keep the job and earn enough to survive. Of trying to talk to girls. And watching helplessly as a loved one, his uncle ben, dies. And more than anything else, peters struggles with deciding what to do when his principles, his personal values, came in conflict with each other. Thats what made spiderman such an interesting character to follow. People always related to his inner struggle with decisions. Peter found that sometimes he couldnt keep a promise to a friend and at the same time as spiderman help someone in need. The Intelligence Community is composed of people who similarly face tough choices. I think this often gets lost in the public discussion. We as an institution and as a work force have principles and values that sometimes come into conflict. Things like our need to keep sources and methods secret and our desire to be more open and transparent with what we do. Things like pursuing terrorists and others who want to do us harm and protecting the privacy and Civil Liberties of the typical citizens, not just of this country, but of the world. Who are rarely but sometimes caught up in our collection efforts against the bad guys. Solutions for these conflicts are not always obvious. Ive been in meetings in which we literally pulled out our copies of the constitution and bill of rights to get to the ground truth of what our principles and obligations are. Wrestling with constitutional issues to make difficult decisions is part of our daily business. It is just a fragment of what make our i. C. Career so unique. This is a difficult business. Ive been in this job, as john mentioned, a little over five years. And every day i realize that fact a little more. Ive been pondering a lot about how to best express my feelings on my career and this job. And just last week, i came across an email that captured them