GOP’s budget terrorists a significant threat to America

…or congressional lack of intelligence leads to intelligence failure.

Either way, there is no way around that fact that we are our own worst enemy.

By John Bailey and Jeff Black, NBC News

Sequestration – the across-the-board cuts to the federal workforce and services — jeopardizes national security, and unless remedied will lead to an intelligence failure, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper warned on Thursday.

Clapper made the remarks to the House Intelligence Committee as part of the intelligence community’s annual worldwide threat assessment, a yearly report in which intelligence leaders discuss threats to the United States and American interests around the globe.