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Clapper: FBI's Trump informant was "most benign form of information gathering" {Clapper Lying Again}
cbsnews.com ^ | 5/27/18 | Emily Tillett

Posted on 05/27/2018 6:23:05 PM PDT by drpix

Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper says the use of human sources is "the most benign form of information gathering" amid President Trump's persistent outcry over the FBI's use of an informant during its investigation into connections between Russians and members of the Trump campaign...

...Clapper told "Face the Nation" that as DNI during the Obama administration, he would not have known about any FBI informant or their decision to use a human source.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201710; 20171004; carterpage; clapper; clintonnonnews; cnn; cybersecurity; georgepapadopoulos; jamesclapper; margarettalev; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; samclovis; smearmachine; spygate; stefanhalper; trump; trumprussia
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Like hell he didn't know and like hell The Clapper isn't lying again!

CLAPPER'S TESTIMONY ON NSA SPYING ON AMERICANS

1) Clapper’s perjury when asked about NSA spying: YouTube

2) Clapper’s lie about that perjury: YouTube

The question was unambiguous and Clapper could not have honestly mistaken the question to be about something else:

Senator Wyden: ”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?
THE “CLAPPER DEFENSE” FOR PERJURY


1 posted on 05/27/2018 6:23:05 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

So now he finally admits the Obama “justice” department planted at least one spy in the Trump campaign.


2 posted on 05/27/2018 6:25:05 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: drpix

informants

liar


3 posted on 05/27/2018 6:25:28 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: drpix

I would have thought the most benign form of information gathering would have been to call Donald Trump up on the phone and talk to him.


4 posted on 05/27/2018 6:25:57 PM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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To: BenLurkin

Even his admissions are wrapped in more lies. The Clapper can no longer stop himself from lying.


5 posted on 05/27/2018 6:27:22 PM PDT by drpix
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To: drpix

Look at the liars trying to spin and minimize.


6 posted on 05/27/2018 6:28:56 PM PDT by chris37 ("I am everybody." -Mark Robinson)
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To: drpix
"the most benign form of information gathering"

If the possibility of the Russians infiltrating an American Presidential campaign only required a benign information gatherer, why wasn't Trump notified?

7 posted on 05/27/2018 6:29:18 PM PDT by CaptainK ("no collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker")
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To: drpix

It’s difficult to believe that the NSA wasn’t tapped to do some tapping.


8 posted on 05/27/2018 6:30:36 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: drpix

Clapper needs and deserves to be taken into custody, charged with TREASON, tried and convicted and immediately taken out of his cell to be hanged by the neck, until dead, or stood up in front of a firing squad and shot.

Clapper is a TRAITOR and deserves no further considerations.


9 posted on 05/27/2018 6:31:32 PM PDT by Howie66 ("...Against All Enemies, Foreign and Democrat.....")
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To: drpix

He can’t stop it “whittingly”.


10 posted on 05/27/2018 6:32:43 PM PDT by Blue Highway
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To: drpix

If a “benign human source” had been placed in the Obama campaign, would the media have been as dismissive of it?


11 posted on 05/27/2018 6:34:49 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: drpix

Burglarizing the Watergate Hotel was benign.


12 posted on 05/27/2018 6:34:57 PM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Wisdom and education are different things. Don't confuse them.)
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To: BenLurkin

He would know about electronic surveillance (used to be called wiretapping), unmasking, leaks to the liberal press which even continued to Trump calls to foreign leaders as president.


13 posted on 05/27/2018 6:35:26 PM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Paladin2

can Clapper explain the presence of the following at the same event in Oct 2017, if it wasn’t to discuss (and decide how to counter) all the facts that were slowly being revealed about the anti-Trump activities of various orgs and inidivuals in the US and the UK?

CNBC: 2017 Cambridge Cyber Summit, Wednesday, October 4, 2017
This year’s slate of speakers represents many of the most influential leaders in the cybersecurity industry, including:
•Robert Hannigan, Former Director, Government Communications Headquarters...
•Bill Priestap, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, FBI
•Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice
https://www.cnbc.com/cambridge-cyber-summit-speakers/

add McCabe to the list:

4 October 2017: Aspen Institute: Second Annual Cambridge Cyber Summit
THE STRATEGY SESSIONS
9:05 – 9:35 Global Threat Briefing
Andrew McCabe, Deputy Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation


14 posted on 05/27/2018 6:36:05 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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(should have included this after the McCabe bit)

10:05 – 10:35 Russia and Ukraine: The Canary in the Coalmine?
E.W. “Bill” Priestap, Assistant Director, Counterintelligence Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation

11:25 – 12:05 Good Offense, Better Defense: Toward a New National Cybersecurity Posture
Robert Hannigan, Former Director, GCHQ (U.K.)

12:05 – 12:20 p.m. Cyber Crime and Punishment
Rod Rosenstein, Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/programs/cybersecurity-technology-program/cambridge-cyber-summit/

there are videos on CNBC of the presentations at this event and Hannigan’s contribution is almost nil...and meaningless. he was obviously in attendance for other reasons.


15 posted on 05/27/2018 6:37:56 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: drpix

I’m pretty sure an agent provocateur is not benign in any way.


16 posted on 05/27/2018 6:37:56 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

They were prepared to stage a coup, but it was one of those benign coups, you know?


17 posted on 05/27/2018 6:39:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy
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To: drpix

If this was so benign, if it was even legal, why was it necessary to forge Susan Rice’s signature on so many unmasking requests?


18 posted on 05/27/2018 6:41:10 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Hey, Clapper: Camp 7@Gitmo is the most economical, yet unpleasant pad for you and about 250 of yours.


19 posted on 05/27/2018 6:41:42 PM PDT by txhurl (World War Q)
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To: drpix

They seemed to pay an awful lot of money to this benign information gatherer.


20 posted on 05/27/2018 6:44:51 PM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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