Clapper: IC Must Consider Cuts In Light Of Possible Second Year of Sequestration

By Jordana Mishory / September 12, 2013 at 8:16 PM
The intelligence community must make more strategic, lasting decisions about cutting its budget as it faces the realization that sequestration will most likely last more than one year, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said today. Speaking at an intelligence event in Washington, Clapper said the intelligence community made a lot of decisions about how sequestration would affect budget cuts on the belief that the mandatory across-the-board reductions would only be a "one-off" event. For example, saving money by cutting...

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