Worldwide Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community by James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence.
From the introduction:
Chairman Burr, Vice Chairman Feinstein, Members of the Committee, thank you for the invitation to offer the United States Intelligence Community’s 2016 assessment of threats to US national security. My statement reflects the collective insights of the Intelligence Community’s extraordinary men and women, whom I am privileged and honored to lead. We in the Intelligence Community are committed every day to provide the nuanced, multidisciplinary intelligence that policymakers, warfighters, and domestic law enforcement personnel need to protect American lives and America’s interests anywhere in the world.
The order of the topics presented in this statement does not necessarily indicate the relative importance or magnitude of the threat in the view of the Intelligence Community.
Information available as of February 3, 2016 was used in the preparation of this assessment.
You may remember that in March of 2013, Director Clapper deliberately perjured himself before this self-same committee.
It’s entirely possible that some truths appear in the assessment Clapper presented, but those are either inadvertent or were a lie could not improve the story.
One of the difficulties of government agents lying when it suits their purposes, is that other members of government and/or the public have no means to distinguish self-serving lies from an occasional truth.
If your interests are served by the threat assessment, make what use of it you will, being mindful that leaks may suddenly discredit both it and any proposal you advance based upon it.