Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) from 2010 to 2017 turned CNN commentator that not only leaked classified information related to the infamous “Steele dossier” to CNN’s Jake Tapper while Clapper was in office – he also lied about it to Congress, under oath. “ His leak “gave the dossier legs and news agencies began to publish its contents because it had now become official news,” according to one congressional source. Clapper’s perjury occurred on March 12, 2013, when he told Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., “No, sir,” and, “Not wittingly,” in response to a question about whether the NSA was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. , A.G. Jeff Session allowed the 5-year statutes of limitations to expire on March 12, 2018 without charging Clapper for his crime. Clapper was the former CEO for the British military intelligence company Detica, and also worked at the same time for two other private intelligence agencies, SRA and Booz Allen Hamilton. After retiring in 2017, he was hired as a CNN analyst, taking a leading role criticizing Trump while be lauded by the fake news outlet as a source of truthful commentary on matters of government surveillance.
The under-oath lie was exposed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden who revealed in June 2013 that the U.S. intelligence community obtained secret court orders forcing phone companies to turn over millions of U.S. call records on an “ongoing, daily basis.”
After CNN reported on the dossier and BuzzFeed published the full document in January 2017, Clapper hypocritically expressed “profound dismay” at the leaks, calling it “extremely corrosive and damaging to national security.” Once exposed, Clapper offered at least two different explanations for his inaccurate testimony. In a June 2013 apology letter, Clapper wrote that he gave the “clearly erroneous” answer because he “simply didn’t think of” the call record collection. But in an MSNBC interview the same month, he said he chose to give the “least untruthful” answer because he was “asked a, ‘When are you going to stop beating your wife?’ kind of question, meaning not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no.”
Clapper was one of the “two national security officials” cited in CNN’s report -published minutes after Buzzfeed released the full Steele dossier.
The revelation that Clapper was responsible for leaking details of both the dossier and briefings to two presidents on the matter is significant, because former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey wrote in one of four memos that he leaked that the briefing of Trump on salacious and unverified allegations from the dossier was necessary because “CNN had them and were looking for a news hook.” –The Federalist
So Comey said that Trump needed to be briefed on the Dossier’s allegations since CNN “had them” – because James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence at the time, provided that information to the same network he now works for.
And who’s idea was it to brief Trump on the dossier? JAMES CLAPPER – according to former FBI Director James Comey’s memos:
“I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the [president-elect] about alone or in a very small group,” Comey wrote.
The revelations detailing Clapper’s leak to CNN can be found in a 253-page report by the House Intelligence Committee majority released on Friday – which also found “no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.”
As Sean Davis of The Federalist bluntly states: “Clapper leaked details of a dossier briefing given to then-President-elect Donald Trump to CNN’s Jake Tapper, lied to Congress about the leak, and was rewarded with a CNN contract a few months later.”
President Trump would tweet this on April 28, 2018: “Clapper lied about (fraudulent) Dossier leaks to CNN,” Trump wrote. “He is a lying machine who now works for Fake News CNN.”
From Clapper’s Congressional testimony:
MR. ROONEY: Did you discuss the dossier or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists?
MR. CLAPPER: No.
Clapper later changed his tune after he was confronted about his communications with Tapper:
“Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the ‘dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,’ and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,” the report reads. “Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’ a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’ the highly-classified version of the ICA,” or intelligence community assessment.
From House Intel Report: “Former DNI James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, acknowledged discussing the dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic.” Early Jan 2017 https://t.co/adtMqdRsVl pic.twitter.com/mG2y5BFpOr
— Nick Short ?? (@PoliticalShort) April 27, 2018
s Jack Posobiec adds, “To be clear: CNN’s Jake Tapper participated in a leak of highly classified information from James Clapper and knowingly participated in a cover-up of it that has gone on for months, during which time CNN hired Clapper as a paid contributor.”
The Daily Caller’s Chuck Ross notes that Clapper also denied speaking to the media in a March conversation with CNN’s Don Lemon.
Indeed it is Don – as The Federalist’s Mollie Hemmingway wrote in January – Comey’s account of Trump’s briefing on the dossier suggested that it was a setup from the beginning – and that it was only done in order to legitimize the story and justify leaking the unverified and salacious details to journalists.
Let’s bring it home with Mollie Hemmingway’s summary from January which hits the nail on the head:
So Comey, at Clapper’s expressed behest, told Trump that CNN was “looking for a news hook” to publish dossier allegations. He said this in the briefing of Trump that almost immediately leaked to CNN, which provided them the very news hook they sought and needed.
This briefing, and the leaking of it, legitimized the dossier, which touched off the Russia hysteria. That hysteria led to a full-fledged media freakout. During the freakout, Comey deliberately refused to say in public what he acknowledged repeatedly in private — that the President of the United States was not under investigation. He even noted in his memos that he told the president at least three times that he was not under investigation. Comey’s refusal to admit publicly what he kept telling people privately led to his firinClapper’s perjury occurred on March 12, 2013, when he told Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., “No, sir,” and, “Not wittingly,” in response to a question about whether the NSA was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. , A.G. Jeff Session allowed the 5-year statutes of limitations to expire on March 12, 2018 without charging Clapper for his crime. –The Federalist
Many members of Congress, mostly Republicans supportive of new limits on electronic surveillance, called for Clapper to be prosecuted as the deadline neared, saying unpunished perjury jeopardizes the ability of Congress to perform oversight.
“He admitted to lying to Congress and was unremorseful and flippant about it,” Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., told the Washington Examiner. “The integrity of our federal government is at stake because his behavior sets the standard for the entire intelligence community.”
“Political consideration should not affect the Department of Justice from pursuing this matter,” Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., said ahead of the deadline. “Complete and truthful testimony is imperative for Congress to conduct effective oversight. It is clear from the evidence and Director Clapper’s own admission that he lied.”
Jesselyn Radack, a defense attorney who represents Snowden and fellow NSA whistleblower Thomas Drake, however, takes a dim view of Clapper being let off the hook.
“It shows that government officials in positions of power can lie with impunity to Congress and the American people about outrageous abuses, but when ordinary citizens like Reality Winner reveal the truth about the same abuses, they face espionage charges and prison,
In March 2017, Clapper said, “I can deny,” Trump’s allegation that President Barack Obama wiretapped his calls in Trump Tower. Clapper, appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press”, said “no” in response to a question about whether there was wiretapping of “anything at Trump Tower.” He said he would know if there were any such FISA court order, and his claim Trump was wrong was widely circulated.
“There was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign,” Clapper said. The journalist who conducted the interview did not inform viewers about Clapper’s false testimony about surveillance, and months after the interview, questions mounted about wiretapping affecting the Trump campaign and Trump Tower.
In September 2017, CNN reported that former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort, who since 2006 has owned a condo in Trump Tower, was wiretapped under secret surveillance court orders between 2014 and “some point” in 2016 and then again beginning in late 2016 during the presidential transition. Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager between May and August 2016, and it’s unclear if any of that time period was covered in the first wiretap, which reportedly was prompted by his foreign lobbying. The second period of Manafort wiretapping, beginning during the presidential transition, reportedly was premised specifically on Russia’s role in the election and covered a period of time when Trump and Manafort were known to speak on the phone. A FISA order against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page was issued in October 2016, after he left the campaign.
“I stand on what I said on the fifth of March,” Clapper said in a 2017 response to reporting on the Manafort surveillance orders. “FISAs are classified, so even if I knew something about it I couldn’t [comment], and I don’t.”
Clapper’s antagonism toward Trump has been wide-ranging.
He told CNN in December 2017 that Russian President Vladimir Putin “knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with the president” after a phone call between the leaders. In another interview, Clapper said about Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey, “If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and flies like a duck, it sure looks like obstruction to me.” In July, Clapper told Australia’s National Press Club, “I think [if] you compare the two, that Watergate pales, really, in my view, compared to what we’re confronting now.”
In August 2017, Clapper told CNN, “I really question his ability to — his fitness to be — in this office,” and, “I worry about, frankly, access to the nuclear codes.” Trump fired back on Twitter: “James Clapper, who famously got caught lying to Congress, is now an authority on Donald Trump. Will he show you his beautiful letter to me?” Clapper said the letter was short and formulaic.
In February 2018, after a group of lawmakers renewed their calls for his prosecution, Clapper said on CNN that “I think there are other shoes to drop here — notably finances” in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of potential Trump campaign collusion with Russia. “What were the financial relationships between the Trump Organization before the election and the Trump campaign?” he said.
The nonprosecution of Clapper comes after a year of Trump attacking Justice Department Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Frustrated by Sessions’ recusal of oversight power for Mueller’s investigation, Trump called Sessions “VERY weak” in his approach to Hillary Clinton and leakers, but the denunciations and promised action resulted in no additional leak charges or a renewed criminal probe of Clinton’s handling of classified information.
After gaining the highest security clearances in America, Clapper then worked for GeoEye, was on the board of three government contractors, worked for Detica (British military intelligence), BAE Systems, SRA International and Booz Allen Hamilton. Ultimately, James A. Clapper (known liar and globalist) was in full control of all intelligence (17 agencies) in America as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) YET demonstrated himself to be an enemy of America.
From the outside it looks like Clapper works for himself out of a drive for power, control and money. He demonstrated his true nature when he left the services of America and worked for British and international private spy agencies, spying on America and using his security clearances as weapons against America. This is clearly demonstrated by his non-stop consolidation of power while in the position of Director of National Intelligence.
It is crystal clear that James Clapper allowed the number one intelligence vendor for cyberwarfare, CrowdStrike, to dominate governmental and corporate cyber breaches. To date, Dmitri and CrowdStrike have had many contracts to find and end cyber-attacks and have not successfully prosecuted a single hacker nor been able to secure any governmental system from attacks. It is also quite odd that Dmitri’s father, Michael Alperovitch, is the number one encryption code expert in America and has essentially created and controls the codes for most military information systems as well as many prominent corporate systems. Clapper didn’t seem to care that Dmitri was a criminal hacker arrested by the FBI and turned into their top cyber hacker against Russian gangsters stealing American’s identities through online scams. Michael Alperovitch was supposedly a Russian nuclear physicist who magically became a U.S. citizen that was hired by the biggest data systems in America to write and maintain encryption codes. Essentially, just as complete control of the 17 intelligence agencies were controlled by Clapper, the encryption codes of America under his watch were controlled by one Russian—Michael Alperovitch.
Key Point: If James Clapper and Michael Alperovitch defected, the entire American intelligence community would have collapsed.
Centralization of power in just a few people usually goes wrong and in this case it went very wrong. Clapper was not interested in accurate intelligence; he was simply a propaganda machine like the Nazi Bureau of Information. Clapper wanted us to believe anything he says without any proof simply based upon the fact that “17 intelligence agencies” all agree with him. Essentially, any determination of James Clapper spoke for the other “16 intelligence agencies,” even if there was no evidence or whether any other agency was asked their opinion.
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