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A government official tells ABC News that Air Force Lt. Gen. James Clapper (ret) is a leading candidate to replace ousted Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair. Clapper is currently Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, serving in that role since 2007. He has also served as Blair’s principal advisor on defense intelligence matters. He formerly headed the Defense Intelligence Agency. Others who have been considered for the job include former Sen. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and deputy Secretary of State James Steinberg, source tell ABC News. Many consider General Clapper to the “father” of GEOINT. Be sure to check out our Q&A with General Clapper from GEOINT 2008. More news to come on this!

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Yesterday, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair announced his resignation under pressure from the White House, ending a tumultuous 16-month tenure marked by intelligence failures and spy agency turf wars. Blair, a retired Navy admiral, is the third director of national intelligence, a position created in response to public outrage over the failure to prevent the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. His departure underscores the disorganization inside the Obama administration’s intelligence apparatus, rocked over the past six months by a spate of high-profile attempted terror attacks that revealed new national security lapses. And it comes two days after a stark Senate report criticized Blair’s office and other intelligence agencies for new failings that, despite a top-to-bottom overhaul of the U.S. intelligence apparatus after 9/11, allowed a would-be bomber to board a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day. Here’s the official resignation statement. Read more from the AP here. We also have the AP video of this news in the post.

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