James Clapper, the Air Force intelligence officer who had feared congressional oversight in the 1970s, was also one of the senior intelligence officials who had failed on Iraq. Two days after the 9/11 attacks, Clapper was named director of the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, the organization that controls the intelligence community’s spy satellites. In the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, Clapper’s agency identified a group of trucks in Iraq as “mobile production facilities for biological agents.”
