EIGHT years ago James R Clapper, the top intelligence official at the Pentagon, wrote to Barack Obama when the President was considering whether to send Clapper’s nomination as US director of national intelligence (DNI) to the Senate. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16252699.PROFILE__Former_US_intelligence_head_on_Russia__Trump_campaign_-_and_having_to_tell_Obama_about_the_Edward_Snowden_leaks/