By AFPMore by this AuthorUS Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said on Thursday that he had submitted his resignation, stepping down as President-elect Donald Trump begins to assemble his new administration. Clapper, whose job is to coordinate the work of 17 disparate agencies like the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, said resigning "felt pretty good" after six years in the job. In March 2013 Clapper denied in testimony to Congress that the agency swept up such data from US telecommunications providers. Clapper though condemned Snowden for damaging the US ability to collect intelligence and for giving away US secrets to enemies. "What Snowden has stolen and exposed has gone way, way beyond his professed concerns with so-called domestic surveillance programs," Clapper said to a hearing in January 2014.

Source: Daily Nation November 17, 2016 16:18 UTC