How can he even say that with a straight face? Those guys really need to be professional lyers.

Terrorists, criminals and freedom fighters always used latest encryption tech in hostile environments to protect themselves. Just look e.g. at the files from the South African underground who made it public.

What Clapper (government, military, police, congress) really cares about is mass decryption of the populations communication.

If you were given a prediction three years ago that an event would occur in seven years' time, and due to unforeseen circumstances said event occurred today, it would have been four years ahead of schedule. Not seven. Forgive me if I'm uncomfortable that the Director of National Intelligence fails to understand a word problem that would make a fourth grader roll their eyes.

Well that's a good thing for all of us including Clapper himself whether he recognizes this or not.

Sounds right. I work for a major Internet company and we locked down everything tight post-Snowden.