yeah, right... 
Posted on 01/05/2017 4:34:11 PM PST by SSS Two
Pat puts out some very good stuff from time to time.
He seemed to go through a dark valley after the 2000 election. I hope he continues to post some good stuff now from time to time.
When he’s on target, he’s actually very good.
Hmm. Believe Assange or unnamed sources in the press. Tough decision...
Brennan and Clapper are Obama political operatives. Trump needs to fire them on day one.
Fishing expedition to smoke out Wikileaks source. The miserable Democrats will do anything to protect their corruption.
yeah, right...
The CIA is a nexus of disinformation. It’s what they are charged to do.
He’s a classic.
These are the things Intel agency should not do. Come out in the open and give evidence and in the process possibly its source. They are breaking all rules to pursue political agenda. This is wrong on many levels. Those orchestrating this must be fired, and may be charged later.
If CNN says so...
I agree.
Why in the world would I believe anything in the news today regarding the Senate hearing? Clapper seemed to be the star witness...In watching the news today, James Clapper’s testimony seemed prominent in the Senate hearings...I refreshed my memory, Mr. Clapper committed perjury, lied to Congress and as late as 2014 there were calls for his resignation.
In addition, he pressured staff to promote good news about ISIS...and regarding the personnel files hack by Chinese, Speaking at a forum in Washington, D.C., Clapper said: “You have to kind of salute the Chinese for what they did.”[60]
Below are the relevant paragraphs from Wikipedia.
On March 12, 2013, during a United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing, Senator Ron Wyden quoted the keynote speech at the 2012 DEF CON by the director of the NSA, Keith B. Alexander. Alexander had stated that “Our job is foreign intelligence” and that “Those who would want to weave the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people, is absolutely false…From my perspective, this is absolute nonsense.” Senator Wyden then asked Clapper, “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” He responded “No, sir.” Wyden asked “It does not?” and Clapper said “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently, perhaps, collect, but not wittingly.”[30]
When Edward Snowden was asked during his January 26, 2014 TV interview in Moscow what the decisive moment was or why he blew the whistle, he replied: “Sort of the breaking point was seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie under oath to Congress. … Seeing that really meant for me there was no going back.”[31]
On June 5, 2013, The Guardian published the first of the global surveillance documents leaked by Edward Snowden, including a top secret court order showing that the NSA had collected phone records from over 120 million Verizon subscribers.[32] The following day, Director Clapper released a statement admitting the NSA collects telephony metadata on millions of Americans’ telephone calls.[33] This metadata information included originating and terminating telephone number, telephone calling card number, International Mobile Station Equipment Identity (IMEI) number, time, and duration of phone calls, but did not include the name, address or financial information of any subscriber.[34]
On June 7, 2013, Clapper was interviewed by Andrea Mitchell on NBC. Clapper said that “I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner by saying no” when he testified.[35]
On June 11, Sen. Wyden accused Clapper of not giving a “straight answer”, noting that Clapper’s office had been provided with the question a day in advance of the hearing and was given the opportunity following Clapper’s testimony to amend his response.[36]
On June 12, 2013, United States House of Representatives member Justin Amash became the first Congressman to openly accuse Director Clapper of criminal perjury, calling for his resignation. In a series of tweets he stated: “It now appears clear that the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, lied under oath to Congress and the American people,” and “Perjury is a serious crime ... [and] Clapper should resign immediately,”[37] Senator Rand Paul said “The director of national intelligence, in March, did directly lie to Congress, which is against the law.”[38] Paul later suggested that Clapper might deserve prison time for his testimony.[39]
On June 27, 2013, a group of 26 senators sent him a complaint letter opposing the use of a “body of secret law”.[40][41] On July 1, 2013, Clapper issued an apology, saying that “My response was clearly erroneous—for which I apologize.”[42] On July 2, Clapper said that he had forgotten about the Patriot Act and therefore had given an “erroneous” answer.[43]
The journalist Glenn Greenwald accused the media in the U.S. of focusing on Edward Snowden instead of focusing on wrongdoing by Clapper and other U.S. officials.[44] Jody Westby of Forbes argued that due to the revelations, the American public should ask Clapper to resign from office, arguing that “Not only did Mr. Clapper give false testimony to Congress, even his June 6 statement was false. We now know—since the companies identified by the Washington Post have started fessing up—that lots more than telephony metadata has been collected and searched.”[45] Fred Kaplan of Slate also advocated having Clapper fired, arguing “if President Obama really welcomes an open debate on this subject, James Clapper has disqualified himself from participation in it. He has to go.”[46] Andy Greenberg of Forbes said that NSA officials along with Clapper, in the years 2012 and 2013 “publicly denied–often with carefully hedged words–participating in the kind of snooping on Americans that has since become nearly undeniable.”[30] John Dean, former White House Counsel for President Nixon, has claimed that it is unlikely Clapper would be charged with the three principal criminal statutes that address false statements to Congress: perjury, obstruction of Congress, and making false statements.[47] David Sirota of Salon said that if the U.S. government fails to treat Clapper and Alexander in the same way as it did Roger Clemens, “the message from the government would be that lying to Congress about baseball is more of a felony than lying to Congress about Americans’ Fourth Amendment rights” and that the “message would declare that when it comes to brazen law-breaking, as long as you are personally connected to the president, you get protection rather than the prosecution you deserve.”[48]
On December 19, 2013, seven Republican members of the House Judiciary Committee called on attorney general Eric Holder to investigate Clapper, saying that “witnesses cannot be allowed to lie to Congress.”[49] In January 2014, Robert Litt, the general counsel to the Office of the DNI, stated that Clapper did not lie to Congress,[50] and in May 2015 clarified that Clapper “had absolutely forgotten the existence of” section 215 of the Patriot Act.[51]
In January 2014, six members of the House of Representatives wrote[52] to President Obama urging him to dismiss Clapper for lying to Congress,[53][54] but were rebuffed by the White House.[55] Caitlin Hayden, a White House spokesperson, said in an e-mailed statement that Obama has “full faith in Director Clapper’s leadership of the intelligence community. The Director has provided an explanation for his answers to Senator Wyden and made clear that he did not intend to mislead the Congress.”[55]
Ban on employee contacts with the media
In March 2014, Clapper banned employees of the intelligence community from unauthorized contact with reporters.[56] The next month he implemented a new pre-publication review policy for the ODNI’s current and former employees that prohibits them from citing news reports based on leaks in their unofficial writings.[57]
Benghazi happened because of Video according to Intelligence.
When your password is password, it’s hard to blame anyone but yourself. Way to go Podesta.
Seth Rich?
Earth to CNN, it is no longer classified information after you tell the whole world about it. Who leaked this data ?
Seriously. If the Russians had the data, all they had to do was have a third party email it to Wiki leaks. A physical courier means the data was in physical form. IE - Not hacked. My guess is they will identify the courier the CIA killed for Hillary.
no offense but the go betweens never went to the russians before giving it to assange. like they couldnt get it to assange without ANOTHER go-between. right....
dont believe it. calling yet again, more bs.
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