Posted on 03/16/2018 10:15:03 AM PDT by Starman417
As the House Intelligence Committee on Monday announced its findings that there was no collusion between Team Trump and Russia, more evidence of the collusion between deep state swamp creatures and a disloyal media to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump was also revealed. James Clapper has been revealed to be both a perjurer and a criminal leaker of classified information to the press.
The cynicism of Americans regarding integrity and accountability in government grew as swamp thing James Clapper avoided his part of the bog being drained as the statute of limitations for prosecuting his perjury before Congress regarding surveillance of Americans expired on Monday:
Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017, admitted giving “clearly erroneous” testimony about mass surveillance in March 2013, and offered differing explanations for why.Right now his behavior wouldn’t set the standard for a shoplifter at a convenience store as the poster child for corruption is revealed by relentless investigative journalist Sara Carter to have leaked classified information to CNN regarding briefings on the Steele dossier to President Obama and then-President-elect Trump, leaks he himself hypocritically condemned;Two criminal statutes that cover lying to Congress have five-year statutes of limitations, establishing a Monday deadline to charge Clapper, who in retirement has emerged as a leading critic of President Trump.
The under-oath untruth was exposed by National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden, who sparked national debate on surveillance policy with leaks to the press.
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.”
Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper allegedly leaked information to CNN early last year regarding the classified briefings given to then President-Elect Donald Trump and President Barrack Obama on the salacious dossier claiming the Russians had compromising information on the president-elect, according to government sources, who noted the evidence of the leak was collected during the House Intelligence Committee’s Russia investigation.This is the same James Clapper that once reassured the Congress that the NSA wasn’t conducting surveillance of the American people. As U.S. News and World Report noted, his resignation didn’t assuage critics who believe James Clapper, like other Obama administration personnel, dodged a perjury bullet when he testified before Congress on the issue of NSA surveillance of American citizens:Clapper, who was one of four senior Obama administration officials to attend the briefing with the presidents, also stated his “profound dismay at the leaks” in an official statement issued in January, 2017 and warned that the leaks were “extremely corrosive and damaging” to national security, according to his press release.
…according to government sources Clapper, who is not mentioned in the report released Monday, had spoken to CNN at roughly the same time Jake Tapper broke the first story regarding the briefings conducted by senior intelligence officials with Trump and Obama on the dossier. Tapper’s story, which published in January 2017, created a snowball effect of allegations in the media that Trump’s campaign had allegedly colluded with the Russians in the 2016 election and that Russia had compromising material on Trump, sources with knowledge of the investigation concluded.
…it was when CNN published the first report that Trump and Obama had been briefed the dossier’s findings that other news agencies began to report on it. The committee found evidence that Clapper, who is now a contributor at CNN, contacted CNN shortly before the story was published by Tapper, Evan Perez, and Jim Sciutto. The story detailed the briefings given to Trump by the senior officials on the contents of the dossier and “gave the dossier legs and news agencies began to publish its contents because it had now become official news,” one congressional source told this reporter. Shortly after CNN published the report, Buzzfeed made the decision to post the entire 35-page dossier and referenced the CNN report in its decision to publish it, according to the website.
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Well, Clapper is kind of a Copper.
Though he is a seditionist trying to stay in the Closet.
Well???? Is he ABOVE THE LAW???? Or isn’t he???? Let’s se some action!!!
Crickets
It is past time for waiting patiently for the wheels of Justice to grind its way to conclusions. We the People need to begin planning a Justice system outside the bounds of the governments, both State and Federal. Our public servants are playing us for fools, and that includes Jeff Sessions, the Justice department, his boss President Trump, Obama, and Congress.
Both parties are in collusion, playing a puppet game to fool us into believing real change will come.
Ah - a Closeted Copper Clapper Caper.
He attempted to take out a US Elected President
AND sold the highest grade intel, and more,
for their Masters overseas.
Mueller better shut his act down, before he completely ruins the Democrat party.
Congress is a neutered remnant of its pre-17th Amendment days.
The purpose of congress, first and last, is reelection.
It’s why I sat out the congressional portion of the 2016 election. I just couldn’t participate any more in the charade.
well done, lol
High crimes, not all the other verbage.
Starman417 wrote: “Mueller better shut his act down, before he completely ruins the Democrat party.”
To which I would reply: “Go, Mueller, go! Get ‘er done!”
Blame Hillary for steering, er veering the Democrat party into this fakakta iceberg. Mueller’s team is akin to the orchestra on the Titanic, playing “Nearer My God to Thee” to calm passengers who realize too late that they must go down with a sinking ship, now bereft of lifeboats.
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