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.
If President Trump needs classified information, he can just call Fang Fang or the Awan Bros.
Hahahaha.
That’s funny, because there is a kernel of truth to it!
Hell, why doesn’t CNN just hire Fang Fang as their “intel expert”?
This is Clown World folks.
thats how we win. we become the new saturday night live (since they SUCK AND Arent funny anymore).
CNN hires FANG FANG direclty and skips Swalwell to eliminate waist in the security leaks.
No intelligent Dem thinks Swallwell getting ropes into giving secrets away is a braggable moment.
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just hang out with Dems, and be the funniest smartbutt you can possibly be. This is how we win. We dont hide, we hang out with them AND BRAG about what they do acting like we love it!
i think its great the vaccines were lost then destroyed! this helps pharma get more of stupid Trump’s money with Operation Warp speed. He paid upfront for them! IDIOT!
In fact now might be a good time to hire the Awan bros as his IT people:):)
Don’t forget to update your dictionary:
clapper: n. an intentional falsehood; v. to intentionally deceive; synonyms: comey, brennan, mccabe, rosenstein, mueller
namberak, There is also, “Clap On! Clap Off!” The Clapper Sound Activated On/off Switch
When you go to the crapper, don’t forget to wipe your clapper.
If your clapper is a flapper stay away from the zapper.
clap: n. any one of several STDs.
clapper: n. one who transmits any one of the several above.
synonym: Satan
residence: soon-to-be lake of fire
The level of treachery and deception is astounding, Patriots all over the country need a place to organize and prepare responses to the tyranny that has taken over so many of our institutions.
Some place in Texas might be good. We need to take our country back and defend the principles upon which it was founded. It’s obvious that no one in charge of the direction our country is headed fears We the People.
“Organize and prepare responses”? Sundance did that last Summer. There is NO shortage of organized responses. When President Trump boarded that helicopter for his return home, after ALL the evidence of corruption we knew had been thoroughly gathered, documented and verified, my hope in anybody anywhere being convicted for their crimes went out the window. If President Trump could not make it happen, you must contemplate the severity of the threats against him and his family , and all of us. WE cannot organize and prepare responses when even the Supreme Court turned down the President. And 3 of those justices owe him, for their lifetime job, but still they turned him down . Squirrel Doc, you and what ARMY are going to do WHAT, in response to the tyranny that gets more viscious every day?
Me and what army? Well, that’s the point, isn’t it. An army, whatever form it is to take, has to be stood up. That is what I meant by organize and prepare. We, meaning those of us who have stood with all that is MAGA, have no shortage of energy or patriotism. What we do not have is a place to gather, plan, and execute those plans without broadcasting our every move to the opposition. Will you pledge your life, your fortune, and your sacred honor if called? Just borrowing an old phrase you might recognize.
Yes! I have before, and will again. Plan NOW. Find like minded family & neighbors. Be a leader, or find one. Organize. Prep now. Too later when needed. Stop bitching and get to work. Build a team/tribe/family to help & protect each other. This time will happen before you know it. Keep it opsec within your group. I know.
Now that Dementia JOE! has been “installed” as Fake President of the U.S. This doofus Clapper along with the rest of the traitorous Obama/Clinton Cabal feel safe again that they can continue their nefarious work of “The Marxist NWO Transformation of America”.
Hail To The Cheat
They don’t “feel” safe. They ARE safe, and clearly always were!!
Somehow, I just don’t think they actually are safe.
They certainly believe they are… but there is just so much evidence “out there” against the whole lot of them.
THAT is what is… different this time. There is NO actual cover-up. Its all “out there” to see.
They are just getting away with their blatant crimes. Usually, with a cover-up… all the evidence is not just floating publically.
ALL that is needed is the MERE indictment… and prosecution. The conviction is pretty straight forward and easy.
THEY ARE ACTUALLY CAUGHT and the evidence is out there for ALL to see.
Most do not see but MERELY b/c the media/others PRETEND there is no evidence. This is true re: the election too.
Everyone is PRETENDING.
Over the COVID year, I got into watching … Columbo. The criminals and their plots on Columbo are BETTER than these bozos’ plots.
Its all so strange to me.
LOL. This is absurd.
These jerks are so confident in their lies and that people will forever be ignorant of the truth.
Hell is going to be full.
They accuse others of what they themselves do! Clapper is a clown.
Will no one rid us of this meddlesome deep state\media complex?
If anyone does, it won’t be “our” $750 Billion a year, more than the next 6 nation’s combined, military as they are part of it. And now, with purges underway, even more so.
Got the historical reference there, well done!
And you’re quite right, they project all that they have done.
Clapper has to be the stupidest person to ever run an “intelligence” agency. There is a reason they are chosen as they are not making any decisions. The swamp is.
He is the perfect person to run it!
He exemplifies the level of ‘intelligence’ we get from this worthless agency. Which is to say, there is none.
On the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Watermen have a saying for guys like Clapper:
“Dumber than a shucked oyster”.
DNI – he didnt run it… he sat at the top, snooped, and made political leaks to assit his team
the reminder we need, that we learned: the adminstrative States owns this country.
If this were 1974, about a dozen members of the Obama Administration would be indicted. If Danald Trump had done what Obama did, I seriously believe that several people would be in danger of being executed.
The media is the problem here. They have been running interference for the Democrats for 40 years. It has gotten so bad that many Americans have no idea how badly they have been deceived for 40 years. They sense something is amiss, but the media covers EVERYTHING up for the Democrats.
I agree with you. The media is the real problem. Idiots that have government jobs come and go, but the media runs cover for them 24/7. Americans can’t effectively vote and self govern without the absolute necessity of an objective press and honest news analysis.
It’s why we have become a nation run by clowns and stupid people. I would bet that 95% of the people that read, write and post comments on this website could run circles around these dug-in tics that work in Washington.
Without a national media platform we are never going to get a message out.
And without a message we are doomed to fail.
Right now we are a few blogs/ sites and obscure tv stations.
If a Tree fell in the forest and nobody heard it,did it really fall?
Search comm nets, learn how to set up radios. Info on net. Equip. is cheap. Get busy, learn to communicate with others. Another world out there. You can speak to entire world.
We also do not seem to have a military on our side.
We don’t need a military. We need the rule of law. The media is flat covering up the horrible abuses by the Justice Department/FBI. If the media were beating the war drums of institutional corruption at the DOJ, people would start questioning what is going on.
Of course, if the media were to start highlighting what happened, the Swamp would cut them off in a heartbeat. Then the media would cave in so they could go to their fancy dinners and parties and hob-nob with the rich and powerful.
The Turtle controls who is in the AG seat. That is how they’ve covered their treachery all these years. As long as the uniparty controls appointments, they will prevent any indictments of their crimes at the fed level.
I think we need to do a whole lot more of just plain mocking them, making fun of them and pinning clown noses and horns on them. Yes they are malignant ghouls but whose to say we can’t have some wicked fun turning their crap into our comedy. They don’t like to look like fools, do they? And that’s exactly what they are! We have some very talented and humorous people who blog here. Clapper is a fool! Just saying….
Don’t expect military in the streets to be a major factor.
Language Warning: 4 minute look at them guarding DC.
Bryan, THAT is the Number One Problem we need to solve!!!!! In showing people Lindells’ video , i am shocked how easily they dismiss it as not having PROOF. They are angry with me, for not admittining i was wrong when I “promised” Trump would be President. they can’t believe MSM is corrupt and lying to them.
Wow! I thought the strawberry blond was Samantha Power at first–woof!?–I suppose the meanness and nastiness just oozes out the same way in both ‘womyn.’
Book of Alkinsky – always accuse your political enemies of what you are guilty of. And the more you are guilty of it, the more you must accuse your political enemies of being guilty of it.
Exactly!! Or as some former President once said: do everything “by the book”.
Obama was actually talking about his future endeaver.
“Do everything. Buy the book.”
I thought he said do everything and BUY my book.
I’m not sure, but didn’t Alinsky borrow that line from Karl Marx? It would be in Saul’s true fashion to take something from another………
sometimes i feel like everything i ever believed about this country was con.
its as if things like equal justice under the law….or the constitution….never existed.
then i remind myself….it must or the deep state wouldn’t do this shit.
Gen Washington and his men were never supposed to win.
2016 was never supposed to happen…Trump was never supposed to win.
but he did.
we did.
its tough right now but i believe our day is coming.
As long as none of these traitors are never prosecuted for their crimes , they will be emboldened to say anything they want to say. And they will have a willing audience in their complicit friends the MSM. This is the America we live in where the guilty walk free and the innocent are persecuted. I pray for America. God help this country.
I think your first sentence should read: Because none of these traitors were ever prosecuted for their crimes, they are emboldened to say anything they want to say.
Ecclesiastes 8:11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
This gang’s arrogance knows no bounds because they have known all along they would never be prosecuted.
The Court of public opinion is where they will lose.
Our job is to pass our judgments to others.
Oldjunkfixer, I’m quite sure you have relatives or neighbors or friends or acquaintences to whom you have tried to “pass your judgements.” Our judgements are HUGE and DANGEROUS. They slink back to their easy chairs and bless CNN for parroting what they read on the news today, that the stiumulus will be in our mail boxes forthwith! And they probably worry that you are “going over the edge” with Conspiracy Theories.
Great idea for a political cartoon: The CNN Parrot!
They won’t be prosecuted and they won’t be called out by the media, either.
Ever.
Will President Trump sue to receive classified info since they have zero grounds to deny him?
It will continue and get worse until we stop it. If DJT didn’t have the power and cajones, cannot think of anyone who can.
Am senator Joe Biden* and approve Mr. Clapper.
https://www.healthline.com/health/projection-psychology#examples Just for informational purposes. Not a clinical diagnosis, or attempt to form a Dr. Patient relationship.
https://bit.ly/3cWPZRg
The ruins of the Former USA that we seek to rebuild upon, are the principles of the Declaration, and the state sovereignty framework of the Articles of Confederation of 1781, not Madison’s rules of civil procedure of the Constitution of 1787.
That will be a hard sell, since our founders canned the AotC in favor of the Constitution of the US.
Very interesting read. I find myself agreeing with many of the points. Will reread several times to understand the full gist of your argument.
2 Thessalonians 2:11-12
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
There are a lot of people finding pleasure in unrighteousness these days.
Alysin Camerota used to have a beautiful glow.
Then she moved over to Communist News Network.
Talk about a harridan.
Hard to believe this moron was a frick’n general.
Not really. I have met several.
It is a political bar they have to reach, not a competence bar.
80 million people just rolled their eyes.
The projection is strong with this one.
The Projection with these Srikas is amazing.
I saw somewhere else where a person called it the DemoCommie “Confession”……accuse your enemy of your “sins”
Our adversaries – particularly China and Russia – recognize U.S. media provide cover for Democrats and know to use that cover to damage American interests.
Fang Fang is one example.
That is the greatest danger we face from the biased press.
Getting harder to read this stuff–these criminals getting away with their crimes while innocent people are being classified as “domestic terrorists.”
Never is easy to read. Just let it reinforce your cold anger and determination to do whatever it takes to resolve the situation for the long term.
In that briefing Clapper just walked over their carefully assembled plausible deniability like an ox in the oval. D’oh.
Perhaps Clapper viewed himself as the odd man out and potential fall guy if the plan went off the rails, so this action was a CYA.
The first thing I noticed was Clapper’s face which has lost a bit of weight compared to the second photo beneath it. He’s 79 yo. Losing significant weight at that age reflected in one’s face is usually a health issue.
See him removed from the face of this earth sooner rather than later would be a good thing as he spread so much evil and he deserves to suffer in like manner as he has caused others to suffer – like Gen Flynn and his family.
Sundance I respect you more than you will ever know. But my jaw no longer drops at the audacity, hypocrisy, hatred of the Republic, the Constitution and We The People by leftist communists like the idiot Clapper! If the DOJ/FBI can ignore the documented massive interference of our 2020 election by China as evidenced by the Mike Lindell’s video Absolute Proof then nothing you can post will ever be jaw dropping to me unless it’s the Supreme Court siding with President Trump! Godspeed Sundance!
Crackpot
So did they execute PDJT, & now they’re pretending to justify it after-the-fact?? …asking for a friend.
In his 2nd Inaugural address, in 1805, Thomas Jefferson stated the following:
“Since truth and reason have maintained their ground against false opinions in league with false facts, the press confined to truth needs no other legal restraint. The public judgment will correct false reasonings and opinions on a full hearing of all parties, and no other definite line can be drawn between the inestimable liberty of the press and its demoralizing licentiousness.”
The problem we have today is that the press is no longer confined to the truth and censorship prevents the public judgement from correcting false reasonings.
It’s not “Jaw Dropping Audacity”…Clapper nor any of the Coup plotters have been held accountable or indicted for clear criminal and corrupt behavior…..Clapper’s attitude is predictable…..
Another voice joins the chorus.
The system, as it stands, cannot be salvaged.
Something new must be created to take its place.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2021/02/07/a-str
Can you or anyone say that there is NO CHANCE that the FISAs were just a parrellel paper trail to Obama’s request of GCHQ to spy on Americans?
Conservative websites had been reporting on the pedophile antics of one of the Lincoln Association’s founders for weeks without response. The moment the NY Times ran an article, they went into panic mode and are now facing organizational demise. This is because the Lincoln Associations funding and stature are provided by the left.
This is power of the media. What they don’t report isn’t an issue. When they decide something is a crisis, they can stampede an issue front and center with prearranged answers. The only limit is when they push a falsehood so big it arouses the complacent to actually check non media approved sources.
This power is way too important for any political party to ignore and should have prompted serious efforts to make sure that the left gets an adversarial press to counter the one it owns. But of course, GOP.
And to get an idea of the sterling characters who make up the media, you can check out an article by the NY Post mentioned in this link: https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/02/new_tellall_book_by_network_tv_news_producer_exposes_disgusting_private_behavior_of_many_lefty_talented_tv_aholes.html
NONE of this crap from these “things” even phases me anymore! They repeatedly accuse PDT and others of EVERYTHING THEY do so…it’s like a “moral compass” – when they spew accusations, it means they’re doing that very thing.
Seems like a pretty iron-clad rule of US politics now: Whatever the Left breathlessly accuses you of, they’ve likely been doing it themselves.
Wow! Mrs. CNN Alison has morphed into Liz Chaney! Bloated on lies.
The Democrats are still trying to damage Trump so much that he cannot be a factor in future national politics, and this is part of it.
Clapper saying Trump misused intelligence, Brennan saying Trump is too unstable to receive briefings, the continuation of he futile impeachment in the Senate, which will likely include cherry-picked and highly-edited videos of Trump speaking and the alleged consequent rioting….all to keep the narrative that Trump is unstable and unfit for office…And why any Republican running in 2022 or 2024 should run away from him.
Expect the MSM to start chiming in with this narrative (not that they didn’t try it before).
But literally nothing mattered!!! Why did they even need to CYA? Nothing happened to anyone and it never f’n will!
No one but “us” even knows about all this. To the average dope this is total conspiracy nutso nonsense if they’ve even gotten a whiff of it all. To your elected Republican it is “see and hear no evil!” It is absolutely f’n astounding NO ONE AT ALL gives two craps that all this illegality and all this corrupt spying and the weaponization of government to attack political opponents , even occurred!
Then, as Sundance points out in the point of this article, they turn around and say someone else did it!! Totally FUBAR! It’s all a big f’n joke and the butt is us. I simply cannot abide this.
If Brennan does not have a specific accusation to make he should be indicted under 18 USC 1001 for making false statements. This is so tiresome.
The sad thing is people believe this criminal and watch CNN to inform themselves. The fake news is all over and too many people never stray outside of it.
Pardon me, Clapper. My mistake. Brennan never should have passed a background investigation. I get them confused.
transparently obvious lies are just kibble for the CNN lapdogs.
This was not the first threat by Harris, so why is sh capable to be VP
FLASHBACK: Kamala Harris Joked About Killing Trump, Pence, and Jeff Sessions https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2021/02/08/flashback-kamala-harris-joked-about-killing-trump-pence-and-jeff-sessions-n1423976
repeat this lie enough times on the tube and eventually it becomes truth. Fascist democrats know this. The morons drooling into their seaweed salad watching this garbage and mesmerized by Trump hate are clueless.
PLUS – Blame your enemy for what you yourself are doing and have done!
Communist Guidebook all the way…so who follows the Communist Guidebook?
Communists?
Clapper should be called Yapper. Or Flapper. He just fluidly flaps at the mouth and spews outright lies.
Also, he reminds me of a hairless chihuahua… although that might not be accurate. Some kind of rodent.