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leaking the allegations, saying in the statement, kwoelt quote, i express mied profound dismay at the leaks appearing in the press. i do not believe the leaks came from within the intelligence community. apparently an effort to diffuse tensions after trump accused the intelligence chiefs wednesday of leaking the claims intentionally. >> i think it was disgraceful, disgraceful that the intelligence agencies allowed any information that turned out to be so false and fake out. i think it's a disgrace. and i say that and i say that, and that's something that nazi germany would have done and di...

The intelligence -- wasn't on his radar, intelligence radar, that isis was on the rise. and so here's the president throwing the intel community under the bus, and in that situation, you had general michael flynn testify before the senate armed services committee in 2014, february 2014, that isis was on the rise. you had leaders of kurdistan telling state department isis is on the rise. so you had a sitting president really not believe or not act on intelligence that he was receiving that did affect directly national security, and, you know, so trump, he can -- the statements that he makes rig...

Statement. in spy speak, that is as declare tif of a sentence as you can get, david. >> well, it was interesting that clapper basically endorsed what secretary clinton had said last night. she made difference to the 17 intelligence agencies, which meant clapper, the person who oversees them. and here's clapper saying, yeah, it's true. we did find that there was high level russian involvement in the hacking of these american political targets. it was an unusual statement, especially following up a debate. i think that it's important for your viewers to understand that the reason that clapper ...

Welcome back to "the real story." u.s. officials hard at work trying to assess the damage caused by edward snowden. can you believe it's already been one year after he blew the lid off our intelligence community? but in a rare interview with "the washington post," director of national intelligence james clapper says the damage caused by snowden could have been much worse saying, quote, we're still investigating but we think a lot of what he looked at he couldn't pull down. some things we thought he got, he apparently didn't. end quote. time to bring our man panel in. andy levey, robert tuckman...