WASHINGTON (AP) – The Latest on the worldwide threat assessment from U.S. intelligence agencies (all times local):
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Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper is telling the Senate Armed Services Committee that the U.S. is facing the most diverse global threat environment he has seen in more than 50 years of government service.
He delivered the annual assessment by U.S. intelligence agencies of the top dangers facing the country.
Clapper says the array of threats and challenges around the world is the result of the collapse of what he described as the “bipolar system.” Russia and its alliance on one side and the U.S. and its western allies on the other provided a level of stability that is now gone.