Clapper: Intelligence Failures Likely Due To Budget Cuts

“...We reduced the intelligence community by about 23 percent. During the mid and late '90s, we closed many CIA stations, reduced [human intelligence] collectors, cut analysts, allowed our overhead architecture to atrophy, neglected basic infrastructure needs such as power, space and cooling, and let our facilities decay. And most damagingly, we badly distorted the workforce...The intelligence community has spent the last decade rebuilding, Clapper said, but, with sequestration, another damaging downward spiral looms..."