Paul Ryan may be openly disgusted with Donald Trump, but he does seem willing to do his bidding: This morning, the Republican House leader sent a letter to Director of National Intelligence James Clapper asking for Hillary Clinton to be banned from receiving classified information during her presidential campaign.

In an appearance at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington on Wednesday, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said that foreign hackers may be spying on the presidential candidates, according to the Associated Press.

The National Security Agency’s widespread collection of telephone records is illegal and not authorized by Congress, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in ACLU v. Clapper. A New York District court had previously refused to even review the bulk collection program, saying it was “for the other two coordinate branches of government to decide.”

Last month, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper sent a letter to Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden admitting that the NSA and CIA used a loophole to search the emails and other electronic communications of Americans without a warrant. Clapper defended the searches as legal.

President Obama's Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, was called to testify before the Senate Armed Services Committee today, and stupidly tried to give an honest assessment of difficult foreign policy situations in response to questions asking for that. Now he's in big trouble, or at least Lindsey Graham wants him to resign.