James Clapper, Russia swung the election to Trump

[Bourbon]

Time for a Donald Trump Tweet attacking the messenger ...





James Clapper Recalls 'Staggering' Proof of Putin Swaying Election to Trump

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has spoken out about the “staggering” amount of evidence that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin swayed the 2016 presidential election. In his new memoir, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths From a Life in Intelligence, Clapper offers a scathing assessment of President Trump and his ties to Russia. The book shows Clapper “free to say about the 2016 elections what he did not say when he testified multiple times before Congress as director of national intelligence,” The Daily Beast’s Christopher Dickey writes in a review in The Washington Post. As Clapper put it: “Of course the Russian efforts affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point." Describing a January 2017 report by the intelligence community presented to the soon-to-be-president, Clapper said, “I remember just how staggering the assessment felt the first time I read it through from start to finish, and just how specific our conclusions and evidence were.” In the intelligence chief’s view, “We showed unambiguously that Putin had ordered the campaign to influence the election… and how the entire operation had begun with attempts to undermine U.S. democracy and demean Secretary Clinton, then shifted to promoting Mr. Trump when Russia assessed he was a viable candidate who would serve their strategic goals.” Trump’s reaction then as now: “aggressive indifference.”

READ IT AT THE WASHINGTON POST



https://www.thedailybeast.com/james-clapper-recalls-staggering-proof-of-putin-swaying-election-to-trum

[dukkha]

The book shows Clapper “free to say about the 2016 elections what he did not say when he testified multiple times before Congress as director of national intelligence,”

so was he lying to Congress ( again) or lying now?

Clapper is full of shit..the consensus IG summary is Russia did not "sway" the election.

[Bourbon]

so was he lying to Congress ( again) or lying now?

Clapper is full of shit..the consensus IG summary is Russia did not "sway" the election.

I'm sure you will be posting your evidence of a lie any minute now ...

[dukkha]

I'm sure you will be posting your evidence of a lie any minute now ...

“free to say about the 2016 elections what he did not say when he testified multiple times before Congress as director of national intelligence,”

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[Bourbon]

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Please explain ... ?

Where's the LIE?

[Darth Omar]

I'm sure you will be posting your evidence of a lie any minute now ...

Where would like him to start lol?

Noise is the board Clapper-lie guru.

[Getin the ring]

James Clapper

[canceled.2021.3]

Clapper is trying to cover his ass now that the noose is tightening around his Deep State neck. He will hang

As an aside, how the hell can anyone listen to Rachel Maddow? She is such a condescending, insufferable cunt

[Bourbon]

Where would like him to start lol?

Noise is the board Clapper-lie guru.

Still no explanation ... take your time

[Darth Omar]

Still no explanation ... take your time

You’d believe anything Clapper said, wouldn’t you.

Such a good little Lemming.

[Legion]

On March 12, 2013, Clapper appeared before the U.S. Select Committee on Intelligence.

U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., was one of the last senators to ask questions during the open portion of the committee hearing.

Wyden: "I hope we can do this in just a yes or no answer, because I know Sen. Feinstein wants to move on. Last summer, the NSA director was at a conference and he was asked a question about the NSA surveillance of Americans. He replied, and I quote here, ‘The story that we have millions, or hundreds of millions, of dossiers on people is completely false.’ The reason I’m asking the question is, having served on the committee now for a dozens years, I don’t really know what a dossier is in this context. So, what I wanted to see if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

Clapper: "No, sir."

Clapper first stood by his comments. On June 6, he told the National Journal, "What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' emails. I stand by that," Clapper said. (As the actual exchange shows, Clapper never mentioned email.)

Two days later, in an interview with NBC, Clapper further explained that he found himself in a difficult position when confronted with Wyden’s question.

"I thought though in retrospect I 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," he said. "So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least most untruthful manner, by saying, ‘No.’"

Clapper later admitted he made a mistake. In a letter to the committee’s chair, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Clapper contended that he thought Wyden was was referring to something other than the phone metadata program, one that targets foreigners.

But he admitted his answer, as stated, was wrong. "My response was clearly erroneous," he wrote.

President Barack Obama, too, in an interview with CNN said Clapper should have been more careful.

http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2014/mar/11/james-clappers-testimony-one-year-later/

[Mr.Badguy]

Clapper is trying to cover his ass now that the noose is tightening around his Deep State neck. He will hang

As an aside, how the hell can anyone listen to Rachel Maddow? She is such a condescending, insufferable cunt

You feel like you're being talked down to? That's probably because you are so far down.

[zymurgy]

now that he is not under oath, he is "free" to say all kinds of stuff.

you guys get more retarded by the minute

[canceled.2021.3]

You feel like you're being talked down to? That's probably because you are so far down.

Well as most liberals are condescending insufferable cunts, I guess you wouldn't be able to tell would you?

[Bourbon]

Clapper tells Maddow the president is illegitimate: Trump would not be president if not for Russia

James Clapper tells Rachel Maddow the president is illegitimate: ‘Trump would not be president if not for’ Russia


https://www.rawstory.com/2018/05/jam...nt-not-russia/

“Now that he is out of government service and a private citizen, James Clapper is ready to say what he really thinks on that front and what he saw happen,” she said.

While quoting his book directly, Maddow broke down the Russian investigation into the presidential election.

Clapper says he has “no doubt” that Russia swung the elections.


“He served as director of national intelligence for 6 1/2 years, including for the duration of the Russian attack on the 2016 election. He says that Donald Trump would not be president if not for that attack,” Maddow said.