1 | Barrack | Obama | The U.S. President. |
| James | Clapper | Author and Narrator. The former Director of U.S. National
Intelligence. Aka: Jimmy. |
| Asmara | | James's former friend. |
| Mike | Clapper | James's brother. |
| Ruth Anne | Clapper | James's sister. |
| Edward | Snowden | A journalist. |
| Mike | Leonard | James's roommate. |
| | | PLC - Platoon Leaders Corp. |
| Gunny | Fowler | James's marine drill instructor. |
| Sergeant | Stiborski | James's marine drill instructor. |
| Sue | Clapper | James's wife. |
| Hank | Aplington | Boss of James's father. A colonel. |
| General | Coira | A bomber pilot during world war II. James's friend. |
| | | NRO - National Reconnaissance Office. |
| Carl | Stapleton | A brigadier general. Gen. Coira's deputy. |
| Joseph | Nazarro | A 4-star General. |
| Noel | Gayler | The NASA Director. |
| Andy | Clapper | James and Sue's son. |
| Sam | Phillips | Lt. Gen. |
| Doyle | Larson | A brigadier general. |
| Kim | II-Sung | The ruler of North Korea. |
| Bobby | Inman | The NSA Director Vice Admiral. |
| Mark | Roth | James's employee. |
2 | Rich | O'Lear | The air force academy commissioner. |
| Gen. | Pfautz | One of James's former bosses. |
| Jennifer | Clapper | James and Sue's daughter. |
| Larry | McDonald | A representative. |
| President | Reagan | The former U.S. President. |
| Bill | Livsey | The 4-star General commander of U.S. forces in Korea. |
| | | TNT - Tunnel Neutralization Team. |
| Ray | Oeth | An army pilot. |
| Col. | Del Morris | An army pilot. |
| Mike | Rodriguez | A deputy U.S. force in Korea command engineer. |
| John | Marsh | Secretary of the Army. |
| Ron | Hays | USPACOM commander admiral. |
| Hunt | Hardisty | An admiral. |
| Dan | Quayle | The U.S. Vice President. |
| Zhao | Ziyang | Korea's general secretary. |
| Li | Peng | The militaristic premier. |
| Jack | Chain | The commander of SAC. |
| Dick | Cheney | The defense secretary. |
| Saddam | Hussein | An Iraqi politician. |
| Norman | Schwarkopf | The commander of U.S. central command. |
| Chuck | Horner | The commander for U.S. central command. |
| John | Warden III | The air force deputy director. |
| Minter | Alexander | Warden's boss. The major general. |
| Mike | Loh | The 4-star general. |
| Tony | McPeak | The 1990s air force chief of staff. James's mentor. |
| Bob | Gates | Director of CIA. |
3 | Joan | Dempsey | The GDIP director. |
| | | MSIC - Missile and Space Intelligence Center. |
| | | AFMIC - Air Force Medical Intelligence Center. |
| Tish | Long | The GDIP staff director. |
| Colin | Powell | The JCS chairman. |
| Bill | Perry | The new deputy secretary of defense. |
| Bob | Smith | The Vietnam veteran and Republic Senator. |
| Henry | Kissinger | The former Secretary of the State. |
| Bui | Tin | A Vietnam Arm. |
| Tim | Berners-Lee | The man who invented the world wide web. |
| Mike | Waschull | An Air force Captain. |
| John | Moore | The Intelligence officer. |
| Hosni | Mubarak | President of Egypt. |
| Mike | Flynn | The DIA director. |
| Johhn | Deutch | The deputy DCI. |
| Mike | McConnell | The former NSA director. |
| | | OSI - Office of Special Investigation. |
| Terry | Schwailer | The wing commander. |
| William | Cohen | The Secretary of Defense. |
| Staser | Holcomb | A retired Vice Admiral. |
| Mike | Hayden | The NSA Director. |
4 | Jefferson | Davis | The former Secretary of War. |
| Jim | King | An outgoing director. |
| Joanne | Isham | James's deputy director. |
| | | NIMA - National Geospatial-Intelligence Army. |
| Uday | | Saddam Hussein's son. |
| Duncan | Hunter | Committee Chairman. |
| Bill | Frist | The majority leader. |
| Susan | Collins | The chair and ranking of the senate homeland. |
| Joe | Liebermann | The chair and ranking of the senate homeland. |
| Mary | Fetchet | A mother who had lost her son in 9/11. |
| Paul | Wolfowitz | A deputy secretary. |
| John | Negroponte | The 1st DNI. |
| Denny | Reimer | James's connection in company
Detica. |
| John | Warner | The U.S. Senator. |
| | | IARPA - Intelligence Advanced Research Projects. |
| Michael | Thomas | The current NSA director. |
| Melana | | Mike's wife. James's sister-in-law. |
| Leon | Panetta | A former representative. |
| Denny | Blair | President Obama's DNI Director. |
| John | Brennan | President Obama's deputy National Security Adviser. |
| Betty | Sapp | James's USD(1) deputy for portfolio programs and resources. |
| Bruce | Carlson | A retired air force general. |
| Ron | Burgees | A DIA Agent. |
| Nidal | Hasan | An army major and practicing psychiatrist. |
| John | Pistole | The FBI deputy director. |
| Mullen | | JCS Chairman. |
| Carl | Levin | A Senator. |
| Umar Farouk | Abdukmutallab | A suicide bomber. |
| Mike | Leiter | The NCTC director. |
5 | Robert | Rangel | Bob's chief of staff. |
| Barbara | Mikulski | A Senator from Maryland. |
| Keith | Alexander | The first CYBERCOM commander. |
| Chris | Clapper | James's sister. |
| Jim | Jones | The NSA adviser. |
| Linda | Varhall | James's senior military assistant at USD(1). |
| Mark | Ewing | ODNI chief management officer. |
| Pat | Rohan | James's briefer. |
| Jim | Danoy | A CIA Analyst. |
| Samantha | Power | The U.N. ambassador. |
| Robert | Cardillo | The DNI principal deputy. |
| Tom | Donilon | The National Security Adviser. |
| | Nixon | The former U.S. President. |
| Pete | Souza | The White House photographer. |
| | | Geronimo - The code for Osama Bin Laden. |
| | | EKIA - Enemy Kill in Action. |
| Osama | Bin Laden | A terrorist group leader. |
6 | Mohamed | Bouazizi | A protester. |
| Zine | El Abidine Ben Ali | A Tunisian President. |
| Omar | Suleiman | A civil rights leader. |
| Muammar | Gaddafi | The brother leader in Libya. |
| Nicolas | Sarkozy | The French President. |
| Chris | Stevens | The U.S. ambassador to Libya. |
| Matt | Olsen | The NCTC director. |
| Sean | Smith | Information Management Officer. Chris Steven's colleague. |
| Susan | Rice | The U.S. Ambassador to U.N. |
| Paul | Pillar | The former deputy Chief of the CIA's counter terrorism. |
| Ahmed | Abu Khattala | The leader of Ansar Al-Sharia. |
7 | Mike | Rogers | A U.S. Representative. |
| Dutch | Ruppersberger | A U.S. Representative. |
| Tim | Geithner | A Treasury Secretary. |
| Sean | Joyce | The FBI's deputy director. |
| Bob | Mueller | The CIA Director. |
| Eric | Holder | The Attorney General. |
| Kathy | Ruemmler | The White House counsel. |
| Chris | Inglis | The NSA deputy director. |
| Ash | Carter | The U.S. Secretary of Defense. |
| Kim | Jong-Un | North Korea's supreme leader. |
| John | Dickas | A member of Senator Wyden's staff. |
| Chuck | Hagel | The new U.S. Secretary of Defense. |
| Dzhokhar | Tsarnaev | A bomb-maker. |
| Tamerlan | Tsarnaev | A bomb-maker. Dzhokhar's brother. |
| Jim | Comey | The FBI Director. |
8 | Bradley | Manning | The private first class officer. A transgender. |
| Julian | Assange | A Wikileaks publisher. |
| Mike | Pompeo | The current CIA Director. |
| Laura | Poitras | A documentary film-maker. |
| Glenn | Greenwald | A reporter from the U.K. |
| Senator | Wyden | A U.S. Senator. |
| Sarah | Harrison | Julian Assange's most-trusted aide. |
| Booz Allen | Hamilton | Snowden's boss. |
| Vladimir | Putin | The Russian President. |
| John | Kerry | The Secretary of State. |
| Bashar | Al-Assad | The Syrian President. |
| President | Kennedy | The former U.S. President. |
| Abu Bakr | Al-Baghdadi | The ISIL Leader. |
9 | Kenneth | Bae | A convicted U.S. Citizen in North Korea. |
| Allison | Hooker | The NSC Korea Director. |
| Madeleine | Albright | The Secretary of State. |
| Kim | Yong-Chol | The leader of North Korea's RGB. |
| Mike | Miller | A convicted U.S. Citizen in North Korea. |
| Jeffrey | Fowler | An ex-convict in North Korea. |
10 | Daniel | Lewis | A specialized law firm security. |
| Mohammad | Javad Zarif | The Iranian foreign affairs minister. |
| Stephanie | Sherline | James's assistant. |
| Katherine | Netanyahu | The Israel Prime Minister. |
| Vince | Stewart | The marine corps lieutenant general. |
| Alex | Jones | A radio host and conspiracy theorist. |
| Allan | Kurdi | The boy whose body had washed ashore in Turkey. |
| Tim | Cook | The CEO of Apple. |
| Paul | Taloni | The director of the Australia Signals Directorate. |
11 | Boris | Yeltsin | The former President of Russia. |
| Nikita | Khrushchev | The soviet premier. |
| Dov | LEvin | A researcher. |
| Trey | Gowdy | The U.S. Representative. |
| Chuck | McCullough | The IC Inspector General. |
| Jim | Jordan | A Republican Representative. |
| Elijah | Cummings | A Democratic Representative. |
| Stan | McChrystal | A Top
Intelligence Officer. |
| John | Kasich | The Governor of Ohio. |
| Debbie | Wasserman | A Congresswoman. |
| George | Stephanopolous | An American T.V. host. |
| Paul | Manafort | Trump's campaign leader. |
| Viktor | Yanukovych | The former
Ukrainian President. |
| Jeh | Johnson | The homeland security secretary. |
| | | USIC - U.S. Intelligence Community. |
| Chris | Wallace | The moderator at the Presidential debate. |
12 | Sergey | Kislyak | A Russian Ambassador. |
| Dan | Sullivan | The Republican Senator. |
| Claire | McCaskill | A Democratic Senator. |
| Jeff | Sessions | The Attorney General. |
| Reince | Priebus | The White House Chief of Staff. |
| Dan | Coats | A former Senator. |
| Jim | Coney | James's friend. |
| Jake | Tapper | An American Journalist. |