I enjoyed the closing quote there
In March 2008, Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence in the U.S., opened his remarks to The Johns Hopkins University’s Foreign Affairs Symposium with the lighthouse story, claiming, “Now this is … true. I was in the signals intelligence business where you listen to the people talk and so on. This is true. It’s an actual recording.”
That's the United States Director of National Intelligence from 20 February 2007 to 27 January 2009 during the Bush administration to you.
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