The director of national intelligence hopes the hot foreign policy rhetoric on the campaign trail is “tempered.”
James Clapper told CNN’s Jim Sciutto in an exclusive interview that aired Friday on “New Day” that candidates will eventually come to terms with the fact that their language on the campaign trail won’t translate to the realities of geopolitics if they ascend to the Oval Office.
“Well some of it, to be honest, is misinformed or uninformed,” Clapper said. “I have to believe though that whoever is elected president, which has to be a very, very sobering realization, that some of that rhetoric would be tempered.”
Clapper has served under both Democratic and Republican administrations, but was appointed to his national intelligence post by President Barack Obama in 2010.