Obama’s Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Can’t Stop Lying

Lying is/was the defacto policy of the Obama and Biden regimes.

James Clapper Can’t Stop Lying

By: David Harsanyi, The Federalist, February 14, 2023

He knew exactly what he was doing.

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In an interview with The Washington Post’s “fact checker,” former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper contends that Politico misled the public about a letter he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign warning that the New York Post’s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. “There was message distortion,” Clapper tells The Washington Post. “All we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.”

It was not clear, at all. The purpose of the letter, apparent then as it is now, was to discredit the Post’s scoop and provide Democrats and the media with ammunition to reject it. Of course intel officials couldn’t definitively say that Hunter’s emails, which implicated Joe Biden as a business partner, were concocted by Putin’s spooks. They had no access to the laptop. The purpose was to enlist former intel chiefs to cast doubt on the story. A perfunctory CYA paragraph doesn’t change anything.

The laptop lie began, as is often the case, with Adam Schiff, the California congressman who used the intelligence committee as a partisan disinfo clearinghouse. As soon as the story broke, Schiff claimed that “we know” — a phrase he used numerous times — that the emails had been planted by the Kremlin. By then, though, everyone understood the congressman was an irredeemable liar. The director of national intelligence, John Ratcliffe, issued a statement stressing that, actually, there was no evidence to back Schiff’s claims.

That’s when Natasha Bertrand, the dependable Dem dupe who had passed along so many other fake stories for the intel establishment, “reported” in Politico that more than 50 former senior intelligence officials had signed a letter asserting that the laptop “has all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.” The most notable signees were Clapper, a man who ran a domestic surveillance program and then lied about it to Congress, and former CIA director John Brennan, a man who once oversaw an operation of illegal spying on a Senate staffer, and then also lied about it to the American people.

The letter worked exactly as intended. “Look,” Biden said during the last 2020 presidential debate when asked about the laptop, “there are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he’s accusing me of is a Russian plan.” On “60 Minutes,” Biden called the story “disinformation from the Russians.” Clapper tells the Washington Post that he had absolutely no idea how the former vice president had framed the contents of the letter — which is, to be generous, implausible nonsense.

If Clapper’s letter was merely a good-faith warning, then why didn’t any of the other signees push back against Biden’s contention during their numerous television appearances? Did none of them watch the presidential debates? Why didn’t Clapper send a follow-up statement clarifying his position after the Politico headline purportedly “distorted” the letter? Did he not see the piece until now — just as Republicans are about to investigate? Why did Clapper never raise any other yellow flags regarding the dozens of fantastical scoops about Russian collusion that dominated the news during the Trump years? (To be fair, it’s probably difficult to warn people about disinformation when you’re also spreading it.)

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Samuel The Lamanite

1 year ago

Compulsive lying is a typical trait of socialists/democrats.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  Samuel The Lamanite

IF A DEMOCRAT’S MOUTH OPENS, MOVES, AND SPEAKS, THEY ARE LYING.

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T D

1 year ago

“Russia ‘turned’ election for Trump, Clapper believes ”
2018

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/russia-turned-election-for-trump-clapper-believes

Yes. Clapper has been interfering in elections and politics for a long time. He and his colleagues; and the DNC. and they would get the media and Big Tech to amplify their fake news. Very KGB-like.

Last edited 1 year ago by T D

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T D

1 year ago

Reply to  T D

what a waste of time and money that collusion hoax was. They decieved the public to help influence the 2018 mid-terms.

Then in 2022, they did their Maralago Raid to create buzz before the elections.
Facism.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  T D

I BELIEVE TRUMP WON THE ELECTION, BUT THE DEMS COULDN’T HAVE THAT HAPPEN, SO THEY MADE SURE HE LOST.

WE ALL KNOW IT.

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TomSJr

1 year ago

Reply to  T D

DEMS ARE STILL TRYING TO PROVE A LIE.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Everyone who was in the administration of the Omaoscumunist was a Pathological Liar and deceived everyone who followed them.

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JoeyJ

1 year ago

In his review of the movie Citizenfour, Godfrey Cheshire makes the following observation:

“We see Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) Keith Alexander both lying to Congress–presumably under oath–about the extent of the government’s spying on American citizens”.

If you or I or the guy next door did this, they’d throw us into the slammer and throw away the key.

This guy gets a gig on the MSM recieving a fat salary.

Kinda makes you proud to be an American.

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Eoj Attemra

1 year ago

Well perhaps but “not wittingly”…. LOL!!! What an effing Klown.

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jerry snaper

1 year ago

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED! file:///C:/Users/jerry/Documents/Breaking%20News_%20Joe%20Biden%20is%20Muslim!%20_%20Crescent%20International%20_%20Monthly%20News%20Magazine%20from%20ICIT.html

Breaking News: Joe Biden is Muslim! It is the moslem way to excel in lying, deceit and treachery to expand islam. Islam is at war with America. Are we too stupid to understand that?

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TomSJr

1 year ago

LYING IS EXACTLY LIKE BEING AN ALCOHOLIC. YOU BECOME ‘POSSESSED’. Look at it SPIRITUALLY. Demons prevent Clapper from telling the truth. SO, that tells you what?????? CLAPPER IS DEMON-POSSESSED, ALONG WITH EVERY OTHER DEMOCRAT IN D.C..

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The VIKING

1 year ago

WHY do we keep these lying scumbags in office. They lie to us& we are their boss. I would fire an employee if he lied to me. Its like if you cant lie you cant have the job.

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