Gotta love the professionally obtuse former DNI James Clapper.
As much as he is a stuttering doofus, and therein showcases his political value for the former administration; and to the extent that Clapper has previously stated there was no attempt by the DOJ/FBI to gain a FISA authorized approval for surveillance on any Trump campaign officials: “none that I’m aware of“; …it is always valuable to listen to Clapper because he has a tendency to, well, to let slip stuff that makes the black hats cringe.
Cue the audio visual “slippage.” Inside tonight’s interview by Jake Tapper, former DNI James Clapper now unwittingly refutes his previous assertion of “no Trump FISA warrant“, and simultaneously lets it slip out that the Clinton/Steele dossier was not used in gaining origination authority for FISA-702 surveillance, but rather for an “extension” of a previous application for FISA-702 surveillance. WATCH:
06:48 ..”as I understand it, this was simply an extension of uh, the original, uh, FISA request. Meaning that, or implying, that apparently, there was information that was considered, uh, ‘valuable’, that was being obtained, via the initial FISA request.”
“FISA’s have, uh, finite dates. Uh, in other words they have deadlines; they aren’t indefinite… So when the time was up for the initial FISA report, FISA request, then it was time to get an extension. So on its face, I don’t know that the dossier played, very much, in this at all”…
Well, that’s interesting. I wonder who gave Clapper the “as I understand it” part? Now let’s go back to March 5th 2017 and review what DNI James Clapper said about the Department of Justice getting FISA-702 surveillance authority on Trump campaign officials.
Notice in this March 5th, 2017 interview, the question is specifically about “The FBI” (not other Title III orgs) gaining a FISA Court Order on Trump Tower or Trump Campaign officials. WATCH:
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Clapper didn’t know of any FISA-702 surveillance authority in March 2017, but today, January 31st, 2018, “as he understands it”, the Clinton/Steele dossier was used during an FBI FISA702 re-authorization he never knew was happening.
I wonder why Jake Tapper never asked him when he came to this new understanding? Nevermind, rhetorical.
Funny how that happens…
Gotta love obsequious James Clapper
Of course all of this begs the question: Then when did FISA-702 surveillance begin?
If the dossier was used for an extension in September-October 2016, and extensions are in 90-day increments, then FISA surveillance was happening in June-July 2016. Implying there never was a denial of any originating FISA request.
Keeping in mind James Comey testified March 20th, 2017, that the FBI counterintelligence operation began in July 2016, this would align with an October 2016 re-authorization date.
ie. Candidate Donald J Trump was under surveillance from the minute he won the GOP primary.
Funny how that sunlight shines through.














Strange that the cabal at the FBI is now concerned with the accuracy of a memo they weren’t at all concerned with the accuracy of the phony dossier back then. Oh those chickens sure are coming home and they are a roosting or should I say a roasting big time.
Stay tuned for the next Big Shoe to drop which will be the IG’s report which the democrats are going to have a real hard time denying and which all these investigations are based on. The democrats thought they could continue to lie and bring down a sitting President. Thank God for the IG and the unearthing of the truth behind all these lies.
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“This is the calm before the storm.” – President Trump.
“What storm, Mr president?” – LSM
“You’ll find out” – President Trump
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@konradwp1: I look at it like this:
“This is the calm before the storm” – Donald Trump
“What storm Mr. president?” – LSM
“I am the storm”! – president Trump
Clapper and Brennan also operated under the premise of “Hillary will not lose”. These immoral and corrupt schmucks never even considered that Dt would win ergo their hubris. Now they are cornered, their statements are now lies they told and they are cornered. What now? They are trying to obfuscate and parse their prior words and statements.
This FISA memo also includes these two since they operated directly under the agenda of Hussein involving the British intelligence services that included bad apples and corrupted to the core like these two (C)lowns (I)n (A)merica. Together they conspired against candidate and then president Trump on behalf of Hussein.
They together had an additional agenda independent to that of Hillary and DNC.
Clapper sees the writing on the wall as he knows that they are facing a military tribunals who are not as forgiving or understanding of the treason they committed as judges in civilian courts may have.
Clapper is pathetic and having served in the military makes his high crimes of treason even more serious. What an embarrassment to the rest of our Armed Forces.
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And, the President is keeping GITMO opened! Maybe Saudi Arabia can switch off their recent 100 arrests with our 100?
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This idiot didn’t even know about the shoe bomber…
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From here it also looks like Her Majesty’s intel services have a problem. How chummy was Steele with all these Russians when he was an active MI-6 agent? (The UK has a notoriously long-standing problem with Russophile agents in its intel apparatus.)
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I have always like this word of truth. Day of conspirators reaping the whirlwind is coming.
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I LOVE the use of juxtaposition to demonstrate perfidy.
” the FBI is now concerned with the accuracy of a memo (while) they weren’t at all concerned with the accuracy of the phony dossier back then.”
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What you say rings true.
I suspect the drama management around the release of the Memo is intended specifically to flush out the cover-up falsehoods told publicly by the conspirators, during 2017.
Clapper fell into that exact trap on CNN, last night.
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Yup. The use of dossier in FISA extension indicates that little was uncovered in the initial dragnet from July – Oct. Therefore the FBI had to rely on the dossier because there was “no big there there.”
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Best part about the IG is that the DEMS REQUESTED the investigation into Trump/Russia. Obama ordered it. HAHAHAHA
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Its an Arturo Fuentes moment, smells like victory, maybe a double Chateau.
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Macanudo for me… with a side of Jim Bean
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It’ll be a bourbon or scotch for me. I’m really looking forward to reflecting on today’s news cycle this evening.
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It will be Whistlepig Straight Rye Whiskey for me. Had my first taste after a rescue of the Greek ship Lampis, A WW2 liberty ship that sank in a storm with over 50 foot breakers, in the North Atlantic. Captain Hayes gave us all a toast with Rye Wiskey and I was hooked.
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I’ll go small batch. Maybe Woodford Reserve.
Though I do have a large bottle of Knob Creek that needs attention.
Tough decision…
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Ah!
The smell of good bourbon.
Makers with a splash
and 1 long stemmed cherry.
I like my bourbon
Sweet.
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Phew, what a bunch of alcoholics.
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Back in the 1960s the only rye whiskey on the shelf, as I remember my first look at the insides of liquor stores in my home town, was Old Overholt. That’s what I selected for last night’s cheer.
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If I want to get wasted, yep.
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Not at all Karma . . . . . used purely for medicinal or celebratory purposes. But in this case can be used for both. If this drags out much longer, you may have a point. My Krug is chilling.
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Not an alcoholic but like a good whiskey now and then. 🙂
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“I feel sorry for people that don’t drink.
When they wake up in the morning?
It’s the best they’ll feel all day.”
Frank Sinatra
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Rebel Yell Rye here !
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Nothing compares to a little Cowboy Bourbon from Hye, TX. 😉
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Whistlepig is good stuff! Love their 12 yr old.
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Yes what I am sipping straight right now. Have some of their honey aged in their oak barrels.
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Excuse me that is maple syrup, as I said I am sipping.
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Didn’t Evelyn Farkas make the same critical error while in the echo chamber of MSNBC?
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yep
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I remember thinking it stunning that Farkas, an attorney, could be dumb enough to essentially rat-out the DOJ on live television. She was so full of herself and her dedication to the Resistance, she was like a silly teenager, smitten with the idea of actually being on television.
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…,.and with her girlfriend mika staring at her in disbelief
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The googly eyes are usually drug-induced. Nancy Pelosi working her mouth during the SOTUA is a drug-induced problem, otherwise known as “side-effects”. In Nancy’s case it’s “Tardive’s dyskenisia”. I don’t know the med. name of Schiff’s bugged eyes.
s case it’s called “Tardive dyskenesia”
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And Farkas has the same goggly eyes as Adam Schiff for Brains. Are they related?
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or evil Nefilim
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vex . .Adam Schiff started out life in Massachusetts. That explains a lot.
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Obama’s True Believer courtiers..(Hoffa)
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The sudden concern over ‘releasing classified information’ is a scream when you consider Farcas’s interview where she admits that the O administration encouraged getting classified information out to as many folks as possible before leaving the W.H. “if they knew how we knew what we knew…” the hypocrisy is unbelievable. NOW everyone is concerned with classified information getting out? Puuuuulease.
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I got a bit of mail from JUDICIAL WATCH today about the Deep State. Sebastian Gorka cited the statistic of 125 leaks of classified information in the first 126 days Trump was President.
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I think the FISA application was on Carter Page, not Trump.
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“Frank Lind says:
February 1, 2018 at 3:10 am
I think the FISA application was on Carter Page, not Trump.”
Then that was a second one because the only one I could find was originally in a 2015 sting op one a russian trying to turn or use him for Russian intel. If they did it during the campaign on Page it could only be because of the previous investigation and probably the dossier too. It was out there already at that time.
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More Clapper!!! More Clapper! We want more slip ups by Clapper!!
Is that something like “More Cowbell” ??
(You know where to look up that video)
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You would think Clapper, in a public forum, would have enough respect for the audience that he would put his bottom teeth in his mouth ALL of the time instead of only once in all the photos we have seen of him.
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Nothing helps James “Clap On-Clap Off” Clapper look good for the cameras.
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Tea leaves tea leaves tea leaves tea leaves it was her ridiculous “ping chart” that they started with. Look up the chart at salon; the pings to trump tower and alpha bank ramped up incrementally as it became clearer and clearer that trump would get the nod. Then they blow up in october. Someone was making adjustments to the malware to make it look like trump was “stepping up” his russian connections. Worse than watergate.
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Ruester – Concerning Alfa Bank, Except they forgot to Turn It Off. Then Alfa was looking for it and figured it out.
Alfa Bank is asking the U.S. Justice Department for help solving the mystery and pledged its full cooperation.
Alfa wants U.S. authorities to help unmask a computer inside the United States that it believes has been used to launch cyberattacks spoofing the appearance of a backdoor communication channel between Moscow and America’s 45th president, according to a source directly familiar with the bank’s request.
The source said the spoofing attempt is equivalent to someone in the U.S. sending an empty envelope to the Trump Towers but putting on the envelope a return address in Russia, causing the Trump server to falsely return the communication back to Moscow. The source cautioned it does not yet have evidence that the same activity occurred between last May through September, causing the generation of the first server pings that computer scientists reported last fall might be evidence of secret communications between Trump and Russia.
https://www.circa.com/story/2017/03/16/politics/russian-bank-tells-doj-mysterious-trump-computer-connections-may-have-been-hacker-hoax
See also, Vault7 & 8 for all the neat programs the CYA & DNI have to hide your identity when web surfing.
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That’s right. It is already well-known and well-documented that the Alfa Bank pinging was a setup. See April Lorenzen – Tea Leaves exposed on April 9th, 2017.
https://weaponizedautism.wordpress.com/2017/04/09/trump-dns-logs-fabricated/
That’s regarding the fake logs. Now, as regards the fake server, I have seen it reported that it belonged to Crowdstrike. Needs verification.
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https://www.newshawknetwork.com/politics/obama-operative-confirms-trump-spying/
3-30-17 – that “Trump” server is actually owned by Crowdstrike – need proof.
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Also the L. Jean Camp (who was interviewed by The Intercept on the story ) (and cohort of April Lorenzen) online record of WHOIS logs where the Trump OrGAINzation is twice misspelled and the Florida-based Cendyn registrant contact name Emily McMullin appears, very possibly related to Trump-hater, ex-CIA Evan McMullin
http://www.ljean.com/NetworkRecords/Trump-Owned-And-Mail-Systems-WHOIS-15.txt
More here:
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread1164157/pg1
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ruester, that is such an odd place to look for important info, I think you should send a link to the WH so they have more clues and proof to the “wire tapping” :
https://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/#page
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I have come to believe there was monitoring going on in July for a different reason. How did the NYT sources know about the Trump Tower meeting June 9th 2016 and leak to NYT on July 9th 2017?
Everyone has always assumed it is because of a Trump insider who was feeding the FBI. But this story came out prior to Manafort’s indictment, so I do not believe he spilled the beans. Papdopoulos was not in that game. So far there has been zero evidence of another FBI informant in the Trump inner circle.
I am left with it being the result of government monitoring that was going on prior to the July FISA Application. Love to be proven wrong about this.
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The Moose and Squirrel dossier made the claim that Trump had established an intelligence exchange with Putin that went on for about NINE YEARS, which would date back to when Trump was a Democrat hosting fund raisers for his friend, “Cryin'” Chuck Schumer. Then we are told Donald, Jr. had to meet with Natalya Veselnitskaya to find out dirt Putin had on Hillary. They never keep track of their lies.
They all liked Trump back in his Democrat days. Makes Nancy cry.
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FUBAR.
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Clapper is setting up the “new narrative” because the old one has been exposed…
Expect this one to be followed by the “next new narrative” and so on.
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Yes, his narrative keeps changing. Goes from absolutely no FISC approval–“I would have known… I can say it didn’t happen”–to oh yeah, it is my understandinf that they just used the Dossier that we couldn’t substantiate but parts of which were supported by other intelligence WE had to extend the [formerly nonexistent] authotization we already had.
I think the “other intelligence” to which he refers is a “dossier” developed by a thoroughly disreputable and discredited Clinton operative whose work can be traced all the way back to the attempt to discredit or intimidate women involved with Bill. See how that works?
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The Cody Shearer farce. Two lies do not a truth make.
http://amp.dailycaller.com/2018/01/30/christopher-steele-gave-fbi-a-2nd-dossier-from-notorious-clinton-hatchet-man/
Christopher Steele Gave FBI A Second Dossier From Notorious Clinton ‘Hatchet Man’
January 30th, 2018
Re: Cody Shearer and Sidney Blumenthal & Hillary Campaign involvement
Some excerpts of the make one’s blood boil type:
“The Guardian further reports that the FBI is still looking into the Shearer memo.”
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“Shearer, whose brother-in-law is Brookings Institution president Strobe Talbott, also worked alongside Sidney Blumenthal….”
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“Blumenthal and Shearer worked together on a business project aimed at capitalizing on the Libyan civil war following the removal of Muammar Gaddafi. Blumenthal’s hacked emails show that he and Shearer were in contact regarding a project to build medical facilities in Libya. Blumenthal frequently emailed then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushing her to support the removal of Gaddafi as well as his project.”
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“Shearer’s handiwork may have been referenced in a recent book published by Guardian reporter Luke Harding. In one passage, Harding wrote that he had been contacted by someone in the Clinton campaign who claimed to have information mirroring the allegations laid out in both the Steele dossier and the Shearer memo.
“In October [2016] an email written by a person in the Clinton camp reached my inbox. It set out some of the unproven allegations against Trump, including sex with prostitutes in Moscow. The email said the claims came from a source inside the FSB. This was not Steele’s work, but some of it echoes the dossier,” Harding wrote.”
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Remember: Clapper previously apologized for spying on the Senate Intelligence members. . . Crook then, crook now. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2014/07/31/obama-should-fire-john-brennan/?utm_term=.10e88c8f13fe
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How can Feinstein herself trust these crumbs? They broke into her laptop with her watching it.
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Clapper you are a crimilal liar. I hope you go to jail for the lies you told to America.
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“Seems to be eroding” how about IS eroding……right in front of our eyes…..3…..2…..1…….release the MEMO🇺🇸
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Jake Tapper’s coffee cup says more about him as a person than he does himself….Who has a “UNHAPPY” face on their coffee cup? Anyone ever seen that? He despises himself and the POTUS……MAGA!
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I didn’t notice that. How telling!
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He always looks like he has a fart on deck that’s killing hime.
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Stating the “Obvious Conclusion” here:
This FISA surveillance was not limited to Trump. It covered every 2016 candidate, save Hillary.
And that last is what will hang the FBI as an institution.
There is a new Counter-Intelligence agency in the American near future, with zero supervisors or managers from the FBI.
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I couldn’t even get to the end of the vid. I was revolted by the conversational LIES passing between two traitors. These people infuriate and nauseate me.
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Clapper says the FISA Court is not a Rubber Stamp…
EXCEPT as ‘Mother Jones’ reports (eesssc) .. “FISA Court Has Rejected .03 Percent Of All Government Surveillance Requests”
That means they approve 99.97% OF ALL REQUESTS….
Rubber stamp?
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RHU, that is a better percentage than the purity of ivory soap, 99.44!
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It’s plastic now, so Clapper was telling the truth.
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“Professionally Obtuse”!!!!
LOVE that.
Going cold turkey on liberal comedians was oh so hard but oh so necessary. It’s SO nice to find great analysis & humour here
If you run it through SeinfeldVision, Clapper doesn’t even qualify as a George Costanza. At least George knew when someone was trying to stick it to him. Marlene the cashier? Even she had the sense to reject Jerry’s inane observations. Puddy? HE knew Kramers shower garburator was a Clarkman. No, there is no Seinfeld equivalent for Clapper. He’s just plain not evil enough for the swamp. It’s clear they only woke him up for the important meetings.
And thank you for the time stamp for the first video. Sundance UNDERSTANDS the impossibility of listening to self hating Project Mockingbird operative Jake Tappers dog whistle for 9 min straight.
Happy Day of Freedom everybody!
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At nearly the beginning of the interview (0:23) Clapper mistakenly implies that the FBI is a branch of government, or that the FBI is not part of the executive branch! Maybe most of the public doesn’t understand this but Clapper ought to! He’s either stupid or a slimeball, I vote for both. Then Tapper very very gently and politely coaxes him into reality. Would Tapper be so gentle if Trump or anyone on Trump’s team made such an absurd mistake? Then Clapper acknowledges the error and adjusts his ear piece, probably because someone is screaming at him to cover up his mistake. I couldn’t watch any more after that. I hope Clapper is a subject of the memo. I hope Obama is too. #WaitingImpatientlyForTheMemo
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we must have been typing at the same time; just posted similar comment below..he corrected to independent, which is also false.
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I watched this last night and what absolutely appalled me was that the idiot Clapper actually said that the Judicial/FBI Dept was part of the Judiciary and Trump didn’t understand the separation of powers; then he semi-corrected himself by saying that the Dept was independent…it is very scary that this man was in a position of power/authority…
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This idiot didn’t even know about the shoe bomber…
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I didn’t think that anything could beat 2016, the magnificent election year culminating in Trump’s brilliant win, but 2017 was even better. And now 2018 is poised to be better still. I’m not even concerned at the moment with people going to prison, I just want the truth to come out, about what the Democrats did to try to manipulate an election and oust a legitimately-elected President. When the Mueller witch hunt is ended Trump will be free to operate as he should have been since Jan 21 2017. I think this is going to be a brilliant year. .
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Goodness gracious, Clapper starts off by falsely stating that the intelligence agencies are a separate branch of government from the executive branch, and you can see Tapper gently correcting him. Unbelievable. Clapper is reduced to looking at Tapper with a “help me” expression on his face. He is so flustered that it’s no wonder he eventually forgets himself and contradicts his earlier interviews. That’s the problem with a lie; it’s far too easy to forget what you said before.
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wow, you, covfefe999 and me typing same thing at same time!
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where in the video is this statement?
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Implications from Clapper’s terms:
1) If the Clinton-Fusion-Dossier was used to get an extension of an existing (presumably approved) FISA surveillance application, what of the summer 2016 FISA application said to have been rejected?
2) After that failure, did Bureaucrats decide they’d have a better chance piggybacking their operation onto an existing approved FISA case?
3) If the C-S-D was used as evidence to justify extension of an existing FISA case, did the applicants imply that the C-S-D contained evidence gathered through the existing FISA surveillance? Why else would an unverified walk-in report from the Clinton campaign be included?
Scum like Schumer will spin this as “We now know that the C-S-D had nothing to do with getting FISA approval to surveille Trump & Co. An extension is totally different. You guys are completely discredited.”
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FBI >Domestic Enemies, time to raid their head quarters ,
Too Many Violations to our Constitution, American Citizens Rights, and the laws in our country.. Raid and Arrest
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Jake Tapper the mouth Flapper interviews James Clapper the DNI NAPPER and tells him how Dapper
his wrinkled old suit is.
“Quite a suit Clapper” says Tapper.
“You’re talking suits Tapper you Flapper
When were all headed for the CRAPPER”
said Clapper.
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You have to wonder why “former” officials are speaking to the press at all, given the legal risks to themselves and others currently under investigation. Which other “former” principals are telling Clapper it’s a good idea to make these appearances? Everyone knows he’s a terrible liar, based on his overtly deceptive performance in front of Congress, that they did nothing about, so his current sponsors must be desperate to have him out there, possibly making things worse. He doesn’t strike me as a narcissist who naturally wants to be on TV everyday.
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Wait! Isn’t that classified information Clapper is handing out like candy on Halloween? Is that some special privilege that only the president and ex DNI chiefs have?
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The insurance policy initiation date.
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Wray might step down if the memo is released? We should be so lucky.
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Clapper says the FISA court is not a rubberstamp- meanwhile they’ve only rejected .02% of applications. That is pretty much the definition of a rubberstamp court.
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Clapper puts the “Ass” in “Jackass.”
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He should always be addressed properly, former DNI and Perjurer James Clapper.
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This Clapper Ba$tard knew this from the start…withholding evidence are we?
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