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Clapper: 'Good Thing' If FBI Spied on Trump Campaign
Newsmax ^ | 19 May 2018 | Wanda Carruthers

Posted on 05/19/2018 3:34:43 PM PDT by mandaladon

James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, said it was a "good thing" if former President Barack Obama's administration spied on President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, Real Clear Politics reported Friday.

"They [the Obama admin's FBI] may have had someone who was talking to them in the campaign, but, you know, the focus here... is not on the campaign, per se, but what the Russians were doing to try to instantiate themselves in the campaign or influence or leverage it," Clapper told CNN.

But if an intelligence agent was "observing" Trump campaign officials' interactions with Russia, "that's a good thing because the Russians posed a threat to the very basis of our political system."

However, exposing the identity of the unnamed spy would be "hugely dangerous," Clapper maintained, because of "the danger to that person, not to mention, the reluctance of others to be informants for the FBI, and the FBI gains a lot of valuable information from informants, so to me, this is incredible."

President Trump weighed in on the revelations his campaign was spied on, tweeting it was a "hot Fake News story" which, if true, could become the "all time biggest political scandal."

"Reports are there was indeed at least one FBI representative implanted, for political purposes, into my campaign for president. It took place very early on, and long before the phony Russia Hoax became a “hot” Fake News story. If true - all time biggest political scandal!" Trump tweeted.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: carterpage; clapper; clintonnonnews; cnn; coup; crossfirehurricane; deepstate; fbi; georgepapadopoulos; jamesclapper; margarettalev; perjurer; samclovis; stefanhalper; trump; trumpwiretaps
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To: Reily

What does Clapper mean “if”? This was authorized by him, the Attorney General, the Director of the FBI, the Director of the CIA, and likely the President.


21 posted on 05/19/2018 3:48:25 PM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel. community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: mandaladon

Clapper belongs in an insane asylum.
But we knew that anyway.

I suppose we could say its good Obama sicced the FBI to spy on Trump since it proved Trump was squeaky=clean... there’s not been a single shread of evidence from the illegal FBI spy operation...or from any other source.... demonstrating that Trump did anything illegal at all.

but of course, Trump was entitled to a presumption of innocent ANYWAY!


22 posted on 05/19/2018 3:49:16 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: mandaladon
...but, you know, the focus here... is not on the campaign, per se...

Self inflicted wound, IMO.

23 posted on 05/19/2018 3:49:20 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: mandaladon
Clapper ought to be brought up on charges of being too fucking stupid to be DNI directory, convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

Good lord that man is dumb as shit....

24 posted on 05/19/2018 3:49:23 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: skimbell

They feel the noose tightening. You can tell by the obviously fraudulent defenses they are putting up.

They have to say something, anything.


25 posted on 05/19/2018 3:50:48 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: joshua c

Clapper lied to Congress; why has Sylvester Conehead not been prosecuted for perjury?


26 posted on 05/19/2018 3:53:38 PM PDT by laconic (St)
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To: mandaladon

Can Clapper the insurrectionist tell us what good came of it???

No? Hang his ass!!!


27 posted on 05/19/2018 3:55:12 PM PDT by CodeToad
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To: mandaladon

This man was DNI and has no problem with one political party using the power of the government to remain in power? Man did we dodge a bullet!


28 posted on 05/19/2018 3:55:32 PM PDT by WHBates
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To: mandaladon

If Clapper, the FBI, and the CIA had wanted to protect our elections, they could simply have warned Candidate/President Trump. That was not the point though. This was a trap from the start, a final insurance policy in case they needed an excuse - a backup plan. This was about a Deep State coup against the lawfully elected President of the United States in the “unlikely” event that the unthinkable happened and their chosen insiders lost.


29 posted on 05/19/2018 3:56:40 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: mandaladon

Clappers crap talk BS translated in to English. “We got caught doing illegal things, but it is good we did them.”


30 posted on 05/19/2018 3:57:04 PM PDT by cpdiii (cane cutter, deckhand, roughneck, geologist, pilot, pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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To: mandaladon

Sorry Crapper. Spying on presidential candidates is not something we do in America. You must be thinking banana republic or one of the socialist ****holes.


31 posted on 05/19/2018 4:06:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (#NotARussianBot)
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To: mandaladon
The backpedaling, excuses and lying has begun ahead of the IG report release.

Some of these people, like Clapper and Breenan will be in some deep do-do.

How in the pretzel-twisting world of the liberal democRATS, can it be a "good" thing that the Obama administration was spying on and planting moles inside the Trump campaign ahead of the election?

These people know what they did was criminal and they are buying all the rubber underwear they can find for when they sheet their britches and find out they have been caught red-handed.

32 posted on 05/19/2018 4:06:48 PM PDT by HotHunt
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To: mandaladon

A year and a half ago I thought terms like “deep state” and “false flag operation” were for conspiracy freaks. That seems like a long time ago.


33 posted on 05/19/2018 4:09:08 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Stawp the hammering!)
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To: tennmountainman

Sessions, key members of Congress and the entire FBI/DOJ are simpatico with ‘The Clap’ - so there you have it.


34 posted on 05/19/2018 4:16:48 PM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: mandaladon

None Dare Call It Treason


35 posted on 05/19/2018 4:27:59 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: mandaladon
What a load.


36 posted on 05/19/2018 4:30:26 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: mandaladon

Lawyer up fool!!


37 posted on 05/19/2018 4:36:47 PM PDT by databoss
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To: Tawiskaro

I am positive his is the child from the Coneheads


38 posted on 05/19/2018 4:37:16 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: Retvet

Podesta had clear ties to the Russians


39 posted on 05/19/2018 4:41:45 PM PDT by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: mandaladon

Treasonous co-conspirator SCUMBAGS taking the republic to new lows. Lock them up or hang them.

“When in the course on human events it becomes necessary...”


40 posted on 05/19/2018 4:42:00 PM PDT by PGalt
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