U.S. intelligence chief says Karzai unlikely to sign security pact --- (Reuters) - The U.S. director of national intelligence said on Tuesday he does not believe Afghan President Hamid Karzai will sign a bilateral security agreement with the United States. -- "It's my own view, not necessarily company policy... I don't believe that President Karzai is going to sign it," said National Intelligence Director James Clapper, the highest level U.S. official to express such strong doubt, at a U.S. Senate hearing. -- When asked if it would "clear the air" if the United States were to declare it would just wait for the next Afghan president to sign the security agreement, Clapper said it could be positive. -- "It could have a salutary effect, I suppose, if we said that," he told the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee. - More, Patricia Zengerle, at: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/02/11/us-usa-afghanistan-agreement-idUSBREA1A20220140211