The sheer audacity of James Clapper in this segment is jaw-dropping.
After the former ODNI participated in weaponization of the entire intelligence apparatus specifically to target Donald Trump as a candidate and President, James Clapper now says that JoeBama should not give President Trump classified information because he “has used it to attack political enemies” in the past. WATCH:
CONTEXT – Keep in mind that James Clapper was an active, albeit rather stupid, participant in the targeting of Lt. General Michael Flynn. It was Clapper who asked FBI Director James Comey on January 4th for the raw “CR Cuts” of Flynn’s conversation with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. Clapper then took those raw transcript segments into the oval office to brief President Obama. [Full Backstory Below]
When Clapper walked into the Oval Office with those transcripts January 4, 2017, he destroyed any opportunity for the Obama White House to say they did not know there was an FBI investigation of incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. However, the media ignored the evidence of the Obama lies when the truth finally surfaced, May 2020.
On January 5, 2017, President Obama and Susan Rice were discussing incoming National Security Advisor Michael Flynn with FBI Director James Comey. The motive for Susan Rice to write the January 20, 2017, memo to file becomes clear. Here’s the paragraph:
Within this paragraph we find the motive for writing it (emphasis mine):
“Director Comey affirmed that he is proceeding “by the book” as it relates to law enforcement.” … “Comey said he does have some concerns that incoming NSA Flynn is speaking frequently with Russian Ambassador Kislyak.” “Comey said that could be an issue as it relates to sharing senssitive information.” “President Obama asked if Comey was saying that the NSC should not pass sensitive information related to Russia to Flynn.” “Comey replied “potentially.”” “He added that he has no indication thus far that Flynn has passed classified information to Kislyak, but he noted that “the level of communication is unusual.”
Remember, the position of President Obama and Susan Rice is that they were unaware of any FBI investigation of Flynn (or the Trump campaign); nor did they have any involvement in directing it to take place.
The content of this January 5th meeting makes the first part of their claim challenging to accept. Thus the need for Susan Rice to cover for it.
Here’s the full memo in context (including the redacted paragraph):
A day or two prior to this meeting DNI James Clapper briefed President Obama on the nature of the call between Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak and Michael Flynn.
James Clapper received raw “intelligence cuts” about the call from FBI Director James Comey and used them to brief President Obama.
It gets very sticky for the Obama white house to claim they didn’t know about, nor direct, an FBI investigation of Michael Flynn given the fact they were briefed on the intercepted phone communications conveyed by the FBI, via Clapper, to President Obama.
If the FBI wasn’t investigating Flynn, then why were they intercepting his calls?
Understandably President Obama and NSA Susan Rice would be worried about being attached to a potentially very unlawful investigation of the incoming administration and NSA Michael Flynn; hence the ‘stay behind’ meeting.
As a result of prior briefing material President Obama knew the FBI was monitoring and intercepting Flynn’s communication. The aspect of Obama questioning Comey about sharing sensitive information from Flynn; and Comey’s response; points to Obama/Rice knowledge of an FBI operation against Flynn. An FBI operation against Flynn (and Trump) that Susan Rice knows she needs to specifically claim she and Obama did not know about.
From a hindsight perspective it gets very sticky for Obama/Rice to deny knowledge with that 1/5/17 meeting content in the fray. That’s the purpose of the Jan 20th CYA memo to file. Think about it:
Question: Ms Rice how can you claim to have no knowledge of an FBI investigation when the FBI was providing the White House FBI with intercepts of Flynn communication?
Are you saying the FBI intercepts were not authorized by President Obama?
Rice’s CYA memo is attempting to say exactly that. She’s pinning FBI Director James Comey as “rogue.”
Without the memo FBI Director James Comey could claim President Obama and Susan Rice were well aware of the FBI’s Flynn operation. With the memo Obama/Rice position themselves as having no idea until Comey started talking…
That’s the purpose for the memo; Obama & Rice protecting themselves from Comey if things go sideways.
To further illustrate this intent, it’s worth remembering the letter from Susan Rice’s lawyer, Kathryn Ruemmler to the Senate:
Note the second to last paragraph, it’s all about denying knowledge of FBI operations, writ large, against the Trump campaign or incoming administration.
When James Clapper walked directly into the White House with “intelligence cuts” specifically from the FBI to share with President Obama, it’s likely the legal team around Obama -specifically including Kathryn Reummler- went bananas.
James Clapper was always a doofus, but usefully so. However, in this context doofus Clapper -with his FBI cuts in hand- just infected the White House with direct knowledge of an ongoing FBI investigation of the incoming administration. In that briefing Clapper just walked over their carefully assembled plausible deniability like an ox in the oval. D’oh.
The ‘pull aside’ meeting immediately thereafter, January 5th, was Obama and Susan Rice cleaning up the mess and reassembling their plausible deniability.
The January 20th Susan Rice memo-to-file was supportive material for that intention.
L-R: Kathryn Ruemmler, President Obama, Lisa Monaco, Susan Rice
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Lastly, it does not go unnoticed the purpose for the original redaction in the Susan Rice memo. The DOJ/FBI and intelligence administrators were trying to keep James Comey protected; and maintain the offensive effort toward the Trump administration.
Imagine if that memo had been released in 2017 or 2018?… the sunlight would have been unbearable for a multitude of ongoing narratives. Mueller could never have attempted to prosecute Flynn in 2017 against the backdrop of a known FBI investigation to target and frame Michael Flynn.
When your side can blame the other side for things you’ve done and pretty much do anything you want with impunity it’s easy to get away with spouting BS like this.
Agree.
All we have to do to see the battle plans of the communist dems is to listen to what they accuse their opponents of because that is exactly what they are doing or planning to do.
Durham will probably jump right on it and issue an indictment against President Trump.
Where is Durham, the longer he remains silent, the more likely your statement might become true.
Durham quit and ran off like a little girl when the fraud stole the office.
Haven’t you heard? They’ve all been FIRED, ala Clinton.
Durham is the Swamp Thing. He has disappeared only to return never.
To this very day Clapper remains at the center of a very large domestic spying web. I can’t wait until we vote him out of power.
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Oh yeah…My vote only helps the CIA…
Is he a spider in the web? Or more like a roach caught in the web and fearful?
Pity he does not fear God more.
He is both.
So far Trump is still alive. they know this impeachment is totally illegal so now Orange Man Bad, Orange Man Traitor.
When you’re dealing with pure evil, evil is what’s on the menu.
We already know he’s a total liar so that’s no surprize. It’s like being surprised a drunk would drink.
A Gus Hall supporter (CPUSA)…
Here’s what the man that created them said about them:
Truman: But it got out of hand. The fella … the one that was in the White House after me never paid any attention to it, and it got out of hand. Why, they’ve got an organization over there in Virginia now that is practically the equal of the Pentagon in many ways. And I think I’ve told you, one Pentagon is one too many.
Now, as nearly as I can make out, those fellows in the CIA don’t just report on wars and the like, they go out and make their own, and there’s nobody to keep track of what they’re up to. They spend billions of dollars on stirring up trouble so they’ll have something to report on. They’ve become … it’s become a government all of its own and all secret. They don’t have to account to anybody.
That’s a very dangerous thing in a democratic society, and it’s got to be put a stop to. The people have got a right to know what those birds are up to. And if I was back in the White House, people would know. You see, the way a free government works, there’s got to be a housecleaning every now and again, and I don’t care what branch of the government is involved. Somebody has to keep an eye on things.
And when you can’t do any housecleaning because everything that goes on is a damn secret, why, then we’re on our way to something the Founding Fathers didn’t have in mind. Secrecy and a free, democratic government don’t mix. And if what happened at the Bay of Pigs doesn’t prove that, I don’t know what does. You have got to keep an eye on the military at all times, and it doesn’t matter whether it’s the birds in the Pentagon or the birds in the CIA.
First thing: Think.
If I want an enemy removed: I frame them and get others to remove it.
Why is the MEDIA and the POLITICAL APPOINTEES (profiting by oligarch empires) weakening our trust in the CIA? and NSA?
is it because they want their Private cia nsa tools combined with other country’s traitors to be the big dog?
Hmmm… and no one has had an eye on CIA in decades.
What does Homeland Security do? Its a massive new agency that 43 created. What is the point of DHS if they cannot … even secure the homeland and rid it of all enemies domestic?
It’s a mess.
How is this POS still stealing OUR Air ?
Because the pillow was given to Justice Scalia instead.
Sadly I don’t find this jaw dropping anymore. They can pretty much say (and they do) anything they want and get away with it. There is no honest media anymore and crimes go unpunished. We go downhill from here very fast unless we come up with a solution to slow or stop it. We have no representation yet we still pay taxes. There are many here who complain about the big tech companies and still post things from Twitter or YouTube and I will bet many still have an Amazon account or use its services. I guess we haven’t hit rock bottom yet…
Watch the video–this happened under Obama.
The guy is Sabo, a famous street artist in California
The Ss visited him because of his Twitter
A REALLY FUNNY READ
SECRET SERVICE
https://unsavoryagents.com/secret-service-visit/
I remember this! Brave man who continues to push out bold rebel art despite being deplatformed.
Do not bear false witness. How many times have these traitors smeared the innocent with their lies, innuendo, and false charges? How long will God withhold judgment?
At a press conference on Monday, Tampa Mayor Jane Castor (D) said that maskless fans at the Super Bowl game “will be identified by law enforcement and the police will handle the situation.”
There’s nothing to handle. Florida governor said that local officials cannot punish people for not wearing a mask. Mayor of the winning team’s home town is probably a Kansas City fan.
Comment for Thought ( not to pat Barr on the back just thought): AG Barr has acted in all instances as an indicator that BIDEN IS SAFE and THEY WON.
another Question or comment: Why would the CIA like Biden? even if they were scum, why would they yield to Biden or China?
CIA has been captured, is my guess.
but i dont believe it.
i have been researching this heavily. and everytime a FCK up occurs – there is a gap between offiical CIA and a private entity or a political appointee.
I think these political appointments have tried to adopt or use tools thy learned of while in the Agency or near it..
comeys memo – footnote 69 = private fools dabbling in things they shouldnt and this covered up by political winners.
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the Obama BIg Data Dinner – that CTH shows a photo of constantly.. AGAIN i think its private fools knowing of the CIA / NSA interaction and trying to divert it to personal use…
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i dont think the CIA and NSA are compromised… i think thy are cleaning up after these political assholes – and the national threat isnt there. China isnt winning, Europe isnt winning, Iran isnt winning.
China wasn’t winning with Trump in office.
Biden is already making back down and f’up noises as well as subsidizing China’s energy (a la Paris)
Accuse your enemies of what you actually did or are doing. That’s how the left rolls.
“In that briefing Clapper just walked over their carefully assembled plausible deniability like an ox in the oval. D’oh.”
I prefer DOH! in all caps with an exclamation point!
Like I said in a post yesterday, Barr-zini goes down as the most pernicious traitor in the history of the USA. He withheld the contents of Hunter’s laptop from President Trump’s impeachment trial. He praised the pimp Wray, one of the most corrupt FBI directors this country has ever seen. His failed to infiltrate Antifa and BLM letting them burn down cities and denying honest citizens of their civil rights. He crippled the Russia Gate and FISA Investigation allowing filth like Comey, Clapper, Mueller, Weissman, McCabe, and Brennan to not only walk but give us the finger . But most tragic of all was to be part of the election fraud that allowed a Manchurian candidate to become our president. In my mind his cowardly traits were exposed when he was denied by Nadler, the Mayor of Munchkin Land to go to the men’s room and he accepted it.
Dickens had a character in Tale of Two Cities that knitted a list of names to reference later for trials against the common people. When will the citizenry of the US get a chance to make these people answer for their bad behavior? I am beginning to think we need an amendment to the Constitution to recall elected members of the House and Senate both.
Let’s set up a fake court room and put Schumer et al on trial for treason. Present evidence and everything. Demonstrate absurdity with the absurd. They won’t like that.
Why is this “Jaw-Dropping”?
CNN’s Clapper and Brennan have been pulling this forever.
I’d be surprised if he just shut his mouth.
The left is bragging about stealing the election (see the Time article). Of course they are gonna pull this stuff now…ram it home while they can.
They’re setting the narrative and CNN is the perfect setting…what’s the viewership there…about 1 million tops?
MORONS watch this stuff and they voted for the plagiarist and prostitute. What does anyone expect?
Just ANOTHER instance of the lefts CLASSIC TOOL……”projection”. Where they accuse their opponents of the sins, crimes and abuses THEY are guilty of.
Ruemmler was on the corrupt team in the DOJ that went after the Enron and Merrill Lynch guys. None of the ML guys did anything but were put in solitary at max security prisons. She’s no better than Weismann.
Clapper is a real piece of work, or something like that.
The demonrat communist are showing everyone they control the JUSTICE DEPARTMENT and can go after whoever they want do want they want !!! STALIN would be proud of just how fast they have moved and how easy it was to buy off and rule the congress and MEDIA. We are living 1984 ………….
the communist can now rewite history and the PRAVDA media will agree………..
This moron still thinks they won, and he is gonna skate. James, you have chosen poorly.
So how does he reconcile this ‘James Clapper Interrogation’ audio 8 minutes.
https://rumble.com/vdf4nn-james-clapper-interrogation-2.html
the audio is real, it is NOT Clapper but Johnheretohelp
Is it possible that Clapper is using the ‘Drunken Monkey’ strategy where he pretends he is accidentily exposing BO and SR, but it is intentional? Did Clapper see where the blame was beginning to point to, and he didn’t want to take the fall?
It is also possible that Comey was in on it and they worked together to drag BO and SR into the spotlight. It was Comey who gave Clapper the raw intel.
It could also be Comey alone who used Clapper to finger BO and SR because he saw he was going to end up being responsible for Spygate. Comey didn’t want to take the fall for BO. He was already the fall guy for hrc and the email/server fiasco.
In reality, they ALL are responsible for this. They ALL should be LOCKED UP!
and joe biden DIDN’T WIN!
Sundance has done the work of the DOJ, sadly they sit back and laugh as they know people know the truth and can’t do one damn thing about it. Clapper and his ilk are willing to tell any lie all the while aligning America with communism. Do these people not have families? You would think they would want better for their own children and future generations.
https://rumble.com/vdf4nn-james-clapper-interrogation-2.html