Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper was always a doofus, sticking his foot in his mouth about all kinds of Intelligence Community stuff. It was his doofusness that led to President Obama keeping him as DNI, while the rest of the IC worked around him (a little funny at the time).
Today, current Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, declassified and released the content of an email exchange between then NSA Director Mike Rogers and DNI Clapper about the bogus nature of the rushed December 2016 Intelligence Community Assessment, that Obama wanted to help frame the Trump-Russia story.
Adm Mike Rogers is telling James Clapper his NSA team was not comfy with manufacturing and spinning intelligence for a political hit job on the incoming administration. Clapper responds to Rogers telling him to get on board, because this level of IC fabrication requires all key elements to be on the same page. Clapper saying the Russian stuff, “is our story, and we’re sticking to it.”
As noted by Tulsi Gabbard: “Newly declassified Top Secret emails sent on December 22, 2016 complying with President Obama’s order to create the manufactured January 2017 ICA about Russia expose how DNI James Clapper demanded the IC fall in line behind the Russia Hoax. Clapper admits that it was a “team sport” that required “compromise on our ‘normal modalities'”.
This release by DNI Tulsi Gabbard is a solid drop of evidence, albeit in hindsight.
In real time in 2016 and 2017, CTH was watching Adm Mike Rogers very closely, because we could tell he was not a willing participant in the overall fraud. In fact, the pressure on him was transparently obvious to anyone paying attention and listening to the actual words from NSA Director Rogers at the time.
For the sake of clarity, here’s what we said in 2017:
It is not coincidental the two most politicized intelligence operatives, John Brennan (CIA) and James Comey (FBI), presented the information along with like-minded political traveler ODNI James Clapper. While Admiral Mike Rogers (NSA) is also included in the report authorship, it is largely overlooked that Rogers only held a “moderate confidence” in the overall report finding. It was only Brennan and Comey who claimed “high confidence” in the overall report content.
We have continually pointed out at the time the report was written it appeared to be entirely political in construct. The intent of the report was to provide source material for the overall Russian conspiracy narrative; and also establish some framework for the White House to take action, vis-a-vis sanctions.
Against the backdrop of the December 2016 sanctions announcement, President Obama’s administration released the Joint Analysis Report claiming it outlined details of Russia’s involvement hacking into targeted political data-base or computer systems during the election.
Except it didn’t
Not even a little.
The “Russian Malicious Cyber Activity – Joint Analysis Report” (full pdf below) was/is pure nonsense. It outlines nothing more than vague and disingenuous typical hacking activity that is no more substantive than any other hacking report on any other foreign actor.
This might as well be a report blaming Nigerian fraud phone solicitors for targeting U.S. phone numbers. Just because you didn’t actually win the Nigerian national lottery doesn’t mean the Nigerian government are targeting you for your portion of the lottery revenue.
The December FBI report was/is, well, quite simply, pure horse-pucky.
What the report does well is using ridiculous technical terminology to describe innocuous common activity. Example: “ATPT29” is Olaf, the round faced chubby guy probably working from his kitchen table; and “ATPT28” is his unemployed socially isolated buddy living in Mom’s basement down the street.
This paragraph below is priceless in it’s humorous and disingenuous gobblespeak:
Both groups have historically targeted government organizations, think tanks, universities, and corporations around the world. APT29 has been observed crafting targeted spearphishing campaigns leveraging web links to a malicious dropper; once executed, the code delivers Remote Access Tools (RATs) and evades detection using a range of techniques.
APT28 is known for leveraging domains that closely mimic those of targeted organizations and tricking potential victims into entering legitimate credentials. APT28 actors relied heavily on shortened URLs in their spearphishing email campaigns. Once APT28 and APT29 have access to victims, both groups exfiltrate and analyze information to gain intelligence value.
These groups use this information to craft highly targeted spearphishing campaigns. These actors set up operational infrastructure to obfuscate their source infrastructure, host domains and malware for targeting organizations, establish command and control nodes, and harvest credentials and other valuable information from their targets.
(*note the emphasis I placed in the quote) All that nonsense is saying is a general explanation for how hacking, any hacking, is generally carried out. The entire FBI report was nothing more than a generalized, albeit techno-worded, explanation for how Nigerians, Indians, or in this case Russians, attempt to gain your email passwords etc., nothing more.
Here’s the “report“:
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What was alarming to consider was: A) how far the various radical leftists were willing to go to create a straw man crisis for political benefit; and B) how diminished the executive office of the U.S. presidency actually became amid this level of ridiculous propaganda.
There’s no doubt the intended outcome was to create internal confusion amid the U.S. electorate, and seed a media narrative. There were/are millions of people who bought into these widely discussed fabrications.
Consider the example inside a Yahoo News article showcasing the report:
[…] The US intelligence community has concluded that a hack-and-release of Democratic Party and Clinton staff emails was designed to put Trump — a political neophyte who has praised Putin — into the Oval Office. (link)
There was no evidence the DNC was “hacked” (WikiLeaks claims the information was an inside job of “leaking”), Hillary Clinton blames the Macedonians, and even John Podesta admitted himself he was a victim of an ordinary “phishing” password change scam. Not exactly a “hack” per se’.
Does hacking exist, of course it does. Do hackers exist in every country connected by the internet, of course they do. Do state governments participate in hacking offense and defense, again – yes, of course they do. And yes, the FBI and U.S. intelligence community act purposefully against all participants they can catch.
But what does that intellectual truism have to do with the specific allegation that hostile Russian hackers attempted to gain entry into the DNC or John Podesta? These are two entirely different issues which the Obama administration (Brennan and Comey) attempted to conflate simply for political and ideological purposes.
Here is where we see the overall intended and conflated outcome. Consider the Yaho0 media paragraph above against the headline which accompanied the content:
There’s a reasonable case to be made that all of those previous political players have quite a bit to hide within the construct of the entire narrative. Some like James Comey, and possibly Susan Rice, appear to have violated laws on leaking information and unmasking U.S. citizens within intelligence reports.
Former CIA Director John Brennan has clearly established his own exit from the risk matrix. While former ODNI James Clapper is almost too inept to be held accountable for any of it.
It would be disingenuous in the extreme to ignore that NSA Director Mike Rogers was the least willing and least engaged intelligence leader within the scheme and simultaneously highly political ODNI James Clapper was calling for him to be fired.
Admiral Mike Rogers traveled to Trump Tower (after the election) on November 17th without notifying the White House or Clapper. The next day, November 18th, President-Elect Trump moved the entire Transition Team to his New Jersey country club. Mike Rogers remains the current head of the NSA.
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The MIC and the news media are trying to sabotage the meeting in Alaska on Friday with a ridiculous charge that Russia has hacked the federal court database. Of course, anyone even a Russian can sign up and access PACER the federal court records database and obtain and obtain any filed document they wanted?
There were several situations where chinese businessmen were buying prominent property around federal courthouses. I would suspect to carry out some serious listening operations. A number of people were warned but in on case, to many people were making money off the real estate deals to care.
Yea, treason is wall to wall.
Only one person has the power, as well as the motive, to sabotage the Alaska Peace Talks.
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Seconded. There are few things more threatening to a conspiratorial and adversarial government than an informed citizenry and the Treehouse is one of only a handful of resources out there truly shining light into the darkness, as illustrated in this report.
J
Indeed, it does.
This Gang of Eight member had secret communications w Christopher Steele.
https://x.com/RealJamesWoods/status/1954778720969110012
Funny to use the word “incompetent” but not “false”?!
A pox on Warner’s 🏠!
…or Senate as the case may be…hahaha.
I’d say Warner might want to look in the mirror to see incompetence + anti-Americanism for real rather than projecting it on two former military heroes who love and want to save our country.
As is so often the case with these declassified documents, you have to ask …. why was this ever classified? Nothing in there touches on national security. It’s embarrassing to our spy agencies, yes, but that is not supposed to be grounds for classifying information and hiding if from the American people.
“……………you have to ask …. why was this ever classified?”
Because you and I, the ones paying for all this corrupt government, were NEVER meant to know, much less see the contents of this corruption.
The answer to your question is in your post.
“Why was this ever classified?”
Answer:
“It’s embarrassing to our spy agencies.”
Classification is how they bury what they’ve been up to.
“…not supposed to be…” being the operative words in that sentence.
They do this on purpose to hide their BS.
For example, the Air Force classified the vaccine guidance that stated heart attacks were a potential and know side effect, most likely so people like me couldn’t send it to Breitbart. Not a single line in the entire document was marked as classified (you have to indicate the classification level section by section) but did that stop them?
I wouldn’t be surprised if there aren’t a TON of documents sitting at SECRET or even “unclassified but sensitive” specifically to prevent release
I believe it is a crime to falsely classify information to cover up misconduct/criminality…it’s something basic to the training people get when they are granted a security clearance.
It’s like the Nunes Memo. Not one word of it was actually classified. Nobody died. “People will die”, Pelosi said.
Piercing the “But National Security!” firewall is essential to prosecuting people for sedition, treason, or conspiracy against rights.
This is also important long-term because it shows the courts, especially SCOTUS, that they CANNOT give deference to Executive Branch officials hiding behind the NSI lie. The Courts must demand the information and throw out cases for lack of evidence if the govt won’t release it.
That’s the bigger battle being waged here.
Prosecution: the defendant did X
Defendant: produce your evidence
Prosecution: that’s classified
Judge: no evidence, no crime. Produce your evidence
Prosecution: it’s classified
Judge: case dismissed
a lot of russians mccabe and comey ran to set up Americans probably died due to releasing their methods.
and i could care ess.
There is so much over-classification/mis-classification that it’s almost laughable (but it isn’t). And when they can’t find a good reason to classify it, they stamp it FOUO (For Official Use Only): not classified but handled as such.
When you’re trained on classified information, one of the key tenets is that you cannot classify information to hide wrongdoing, embarrassment, etc. Straight from Obama’s own Executive Order 13526:
Sec. 1.7. Classification Prohibitions and Limitations.
(a) In no case shall information be classified, continue to be maintained as classified, or fail to be declassified in order to:
(1) conceal violations of law, inefficiency, or administrative error;
(2) prevent embarrassment to a person, organization, or agency;
(3) restrain competition; or
(4) prevent or delay the release of information that does not require protection in the interest of the national security.
(3) and (4) directly apply to most of what we’ve seen and there should be a valid legal challenge to any statute of limitations based on that — they basically tried to hide anything that would allow prosecution by misusing classification to try and run the clock out. I believe this was woven into the “by the book” discussion they had that day, where they discussed how to try and make it all look enough by the book to get away with it.
Knowing what we know now, how dumb these politicians and bureaucrats are, I’m not surprised they didn’t destroy all this evidence! Thank you Brennan, Clapper, Comey, Warner, et al for being so stupid!
So, Sundance, do you think that Adm. Rogers has been in contact with anyone in the Trump 47 Administration at this point? Of course, the problem is that the one person who can actually deal with these issues is the AG, and she is very clearly NOT up to the task!
The Senate confirmed Bondi for a reason!
That she would not arrest anyone!
Sadly her record is perfect so far!
‘Bout the only thing about her that is, IMHO ! 🤬
Batting a thousand.
and bondi was picked because no one would expect her to prosecute so they let her in.
they got a huge blindside if she pleases her chain of command ( difference between trayvon and PDJT)
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We are not going to get this kind of information. That we are not should NOT be surmised as a basis for assuming that nothing is happening. And, by the way, the ticktock pundit crowd is getting only what is declassified and released by non-DOJ parties (Tulsi Gabbard, e.g.), or otherwise can be released for limited other reasons. They have next to nothing and “source” claims are b.s.
DOJ Manual 1-7.000 – Confidentiality and Media Contacts Policy
https://www.justice.gov/jm/jm-1-7000-media-relations
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And so very fitting that President Trump called her out today ON CAMERA urging her to act with regards to Hillary and “Watermelon-head”….
Sooo– that’s Adam Schiff?
racey to get media talking of obama
POTUS Trump has called him that….
i dont see Rogers as a freedom fighter like MAGA is doing.
i wished it.
based on this email and his public testimony, only gave enough to hint something was wrong.
honor guy that tried to comey it versus whistleblowing. he balanced the error with warning PDJT his tower was wired.
my guess is his staff are some die hard people and they wouldnt let it go.
Absolutely not. Admiral Rodgers retired, kept his mouth shut and hit the $$$ circuit. No way will he jeopardize his comfy retirement serving on the various Boards of Directors for cyber security firms.
There are new readers to CTH and to the biggest political crime in our nation’s history. A brief review.
Admiral Mike Rogers of the NSA is a true Patriot and may have saved the Presidency of Donald Trump. During and after President-elect Trump’s election in 2016, his NSA analysts saw unusual activity with the NSA database(s). He directed them to dig into it further.
Subsequently, they found massive-scale outside (unauthorized?) NSA database activity, and it was clear someone was tracking every move of DJT and his team (fraudulent FISA warrants and the two-hop rule).
Rogers allegedly took a day off work, flew to Manhattan on the DL, went to Trump Tower, and warned DJT he was being spied on. Readers may recall DJT pulling up his President-elect office, and moving it to New Jersey.
Some of this information was released in a heavily redacted 99-page judicial finding byFISA-court Judge Rosemary Collyer. Admiral Rogers helped her in drafting it.
Rogers shut down outside access to the database (Democrat-contract firm FusionGPS one alleged external user), and immediately thereafter, a Bill Clinton dirty-tricks functionaries visited the Obama White House. In 2016 Nellie Ohr, wife of top DOJ official Bruce Ohr and rumored CIA contractor, took six Ham radio classes and acquired a new Ham radio license while helped fabricate the Steele dossier. She subsequently lied to Congress, committing several felonies, but never suffered any consequences.
We see here again Rogers being honest.
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/press/rep/releases/newly-declassified-fbi-document-proves-fusion-gps-contractor-nellie-ohr-lied-to-congress-about-contributions-to-crossfire-hurricane
Can Tulsi Gabbard unredact more of the Collyer judicial finding?
If Collyer redacted, it might be up to Collyer.
If Collyer redacted what the spy agencies told her needed to be, that’s another matter.
Tulsi could advise her that the reasons for redacting no longer exist and request a full (or fuller) release.
they keep stalling most likely because they are shocked at whats redacted when they see it.
redactions simply to hide what was happening
The document you provided at the link says, “Ham radios can facilitate international communication without the use of a cell signal.” Am not knowledgeable on ham radio communications, but would I be correct in assuming that it is a way of communicating without any record of the communication being created, at least unless someone knew what frequency to listen in on? Otherwise what was the point of her taking those classes, and who was she talking to?
All over the air signals are in theory already recorded in real time by the NSA.
Ham radio signals can be transmitted thousands of miles with a relatively modest transmitter setup. Far enough for international reach varying with solar activity. Interestingly, is that the setup can be used to transmit data packets when configured to do so with computers on either end.
And ham radios have been around for a very long time. A friend of mine had a setup when I was a kid in the 1950s, and it wasn’t anything new then. In case of some great calamity, ham radios could become very important (and have in the past).
Yes, this!.. data transmission.
And not just ‘data packets’… those packets of data would likely be encrypted (b/c she’d be monumentally stupid to not have known to encrypt).
I realize the US-G is probably years ahead of any publicly available decryption tools, but considering that iPhones prove nigh impossible to ‘crack’ by law enforcement in big cases against gangsters (and Apple won’t unlock them)… I’d be willing to bet Ohr would know to use whatever encryption tech was strongest at the time.
It’s not like the movies where someone runs a ‘decrypt program’ and presto, 5 minutes later the keys are cracked and they ‘are in’.
So, somewhere, a full copy of whatever data she sent is probably archived in some NSA dbase (if we accept the premise that the NSA records all HAM activity), but the odds of being able to read it in the near/mid future are low.
Adm. Rogers went along to get along and signed off on the intel report to keep his job. He hid behind the “moderate confidence” label.
Then he sat on his hands until the NSA Inspector General boxed him in and showed him all the sketchy 702 activity.
After visiting Trump he basically left town.
Just another political hack.
please provide that.
the moderate thing.
that would a tidbit that got missed
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-to-nsa-director-did-russians-bug-the-oval-officed&ved=2ahUKEwjoqYGytIqPAxUTkIkEHTXuBHoQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0OG6yv4hiN41yknkHZbDMp
It’s in this blog post:
“Mike Rogers (NSA) is also included in the report authorship, it is largely overlooked that Rogers only held a “moderate confidence” in the overall report finding. It was only Brennan and Comey who claimed “high confidence” in the overall report content.”
In the story:
“For the sake of clarity, here’s what we (cth) said in 2017:
It is not coincidental the two most politicized intelligence operatives, John Brennan (CIA) and James Comey (FBI), presented the information along with like-minded political traveler ODNI James Clapper. While Admiral Mike Rogers (NSA) is also included in the report authorship, it is largely overlooked that Rogers only held a “moderate confidence” in the overall report finding. It was only Brennan and Comey who claimed “high confidence” in the overall report content.”
he tried to even the field by taking away one teams snooping in one location.
while a fcking coup was going on.
he doesnt want to die for anyone he did just enough, to feel okay with the events
Ya ever notice regardless of it is the men or women, these people have bags big enough to pack for Europe under their eyes I suspect every one should use them and go.
Nice collage work!
Clapper is the weak link. No too bright, a “go along to get along” kind of guy. Squeeze him hard, DOJ, and he will rat out the rest.
Lt General Clapper IS A TOOL –
USEFUL til NOT
and THEN
DISPOSED OF –
CLAPPER IS the Weak Link
( btw the way, DON’T BE a TOOL in Life )
In times past, and in other political circles, he would have been known as a “useful idiot”
How’d it turn out for those guys?
He’s the “fall guy!”
Mister “Not Wittingly”
mind you
I think Clapper is the one who might be flipped (a grant of immunity to get him to testify might help) because he never seemed to have a critical case of TDS. Brennan, Comey and Obama clearly loathe Trump the person, as do Boasberg, and possibly Merchan. (I may have missed a few, too). They not only wanted to keep Trump out of the Oval Office, but jail him and bankrupt him. They wanted to destroy him personally.
Clapper may just not have wanted someone with Trump’s policies to have the reins of power. He has the Deep State mentality in general.
I also could see Clapper flipping… if he can avoid Arkancide.
of course!
did you see this dumbass try and manufacture his reason for lawyers is becuse he might be a target.
he is a clown
Contrast and compare…
i must admit im more interested in who is pulling these useful idiots strings rather than the palace intrigue surrounding said useful idiots
which is why they dont like us.
they know as soon as u get off this website, its back to regularness. as in we arent seething and coming together.
rally shootings were strategic even if they failed. he has to worry every time now
Clapper is the #1 easiest guy to indict & convict, and possibly turncoat.
Hope he stays away from Marcy Park.
Does he have to travel through that park on his way to a full confession?
How can James Clapper possibly be a doofus?
He served in the United States Military, retiring as a lieutenant general after 32 years of service.
His military decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Air Medal, and Air Force Commendation Medal.
Ah well, I guess all that shows is that rank and decorations are highly overrated, so never mind.
Yeah, the rank of General does not, by itself, confer any great amount of intelligence, lol!
It’s who kisses the right rear end.
Confers general intel.
That rank is political.
General Flynn might disagree.
Flag Officers are usually educated at a military school (Like West Point, etc), awards (ribbons) are not always “earned” but given.
They’re not military decorations for valiant or exceptional service, they are bureaucratic accreditations bestowed for being a team player within the system.
Within a bureaucracy, mediocrity and loyalty are far more valuable traits than imagination and individuality. That is how men such as Clapper can become a decorated Lieutenant Generals.
That is also how civilizations fall.
As a veteran, I have never read a more succinct description of the current US military officer corps.
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Here’s Clapper, describing his medals….
James Clapper may sound like a doofus, he certainly looks like a doofus, but don’t let that fool you. He really is a doofus!!!
Groucho Marx approves this comment.
These are my principles and if you don’t like them … … well … … I have others.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Or –
Democrat politics is the art of looking for trouble, causing it everywhere, diagnosing everything incorrectly and then misapplying all the wrong remedies.
We been knew.
Either James Clapper is dead or my watch has stopped.
It’s very satisfying to see that the farther along we go,
the more validated SD becomes as the conspirators stories unravel.
We knew Rogers was trying to NOT play the game. And he became a target because of that fact.
Learned it all right here.
Now, this satisfaction is fine and dandy. WE were right.
Yumm, tastes good.
But those traitors are still free, and if there aren’t severe consequences for them this whole scheme (or something like it)
could occur again.
The traitors need to pay for their crimes.
Will.
And they’ll be after President Trump when he leaves office, along w his family.
I look for the Left to try to destroy Trump after his POTUS to discolor him!
which is why u can stop stressing yourself.
he will go after them like hell after the midterms.
he will not risk them targeting his again
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/duckworth-to-nsa-director-did-russians-bug-the-oval-officed&ved=2ahUKEwjoqYGytIqPAxUTkIkEHTXuBHoQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0OG6yv4hiN41yknkHZbDMp
rogers said its a moderate chance you conspired with Russia to steal.
thats not your hero.
he did a flipside to what comey did taking the investigation matter from lynch.
tower hack warning
“It was his doofusness that led to President Obama keeping him as DNI”
Sincerely hope that decision is bringing fundamental change to Obama’s lavatory rhythms.
…and maybe his laundry bills too….
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Incompetent or not, clapper needs to be indicted,
“This information is new to Kash Patel!”
Let us hope & pray that perhaps he is learning not to trust everything that he is being told from “inside the silos”
There are many more people that need to become aware of what we have learned here at CTH if we want a lasting change that endures when PDJT leaves office.
Mr. Nunes seems to have learned more since he has no longer been partnered with Mr. Patel. Curious.
I wonder what he’s up to these days.
Devin Nunes serves as the Chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board in the Trump administration, a position he has held since January 20, 2025.
“This information is new to Kash Patel!”
Is it really new to him, or is he putting on a show, pretending to be learning of these things for the first time, all part of a Uniparty ruse?
“Hi. I’m Kash Patel. I’m not a real FBI Director, but I play one on TV!”
That’s my suspicion as well. I find it hard to believe he’s just now hearing about this.
this info is helping your goal.
Someone needs to give him a link to CTH.
All Kash and Co. had to do was come here, to educate themselves, and understand the connections, and bad actors intentions.
SD, you put all this out there years and years ago.
These people in charge now, are clearly, pretending not to know things. But now they know?
+10 for your use of the term, ” horse pucky “, btw.
I use that term, frequently.
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
HansMahncke@HansMahncke
Every time a new Russiagate document emerges, it tells the same story: it was a hoax. Every declassified email, text message, FBI report, Inspector General report, and intelligence memo—without exception—points not to Trump’s wrongdoing but to a coordinated plot against him. Not once has anything surfaced that even hints otherwise. That single fact alone probably reveals more about Russiagate than everything else combined.
Another day … Another shoe drops … Yet the treasonous conspirators are still fat, dumb and happy … collecting their generous government pensions, doing book deals, milking their foundations, and cashing the MSM checks for their talking head gigs. Laughing all the way to the bank.
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How quickly do you think it takes for a complex criminal case (actually many potentially different cases and conspiracies and potential perps) to be thoroughly investigated, analyzed, Grand Jury(ies) and witnesses collected, all documents and evidence collected and organized, all investigators and prosecutors coordinated, decisions regarding who to interrogate first/next/etc. made, strategies decided regarding what and whether to charge under what statutes, etc.? A few weeks? A couple months? This isn’t like a crime that was a one-off.
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I agree.
A rock solid case needs to be established. The juries empaneled are not likely to consist of TREEPERS.
A constant drip of repeated irrefutable evidence needs to saturate the public consciousness in order to create a larger base of informed jurors.
Jurors aren’t going to be called from another state to serve in DC. Nor FL, if that actually comes to fruition.
I’ve seen grand juries impaneled over and over for 180 day terms, that lasted years. On the same case. If a potential juror is knowledgeable about the case, that juror is almost always stricken, lest he or she bring an internal bias to the deliberations.
If anyone was serious about prosecuting, they would be prosecuting instead of leaking their “evidence” every day to CONinc influencers.
It really is that simple.
The volume of the Clock’s Tik-Tok has increased along with velocity…
Provided they delay long enough for the statute of limitations to expire, it’s all good. The Swamp protects itself.
they are bitter because if u waittttt and it never occurs u lost time and other opportunities.
so the doj must demostrate this is different, to keep us at bay
they are scared to death.
stop creating illusions that make you feel like your losing.
IOW, a conspiracy.
and hans is to much of a dumbass to focus his platform until it becomes a narative in the whitehouse press.
target is rosenstein.
focus is he knew mueller was mentally handicaped, so why conspire with the wisemann group
I am very appreciative that you are giving updates on some of the ‘actors’. Thank you Sundance.
Apologize for not being able to stay awake long enough to post this comment to the Open Thread. But Oh geeze already. So tiring and exhausting for me to keep rehashing the past all over again. My middle name is not “Patience.” I lost that virtue a LONG TIME AGO with Russia, Russia, Russia.
While newbies in this game of cards, methinks Blondie, Katel, and Kash might consider learning to know when to hold their cards closer. Every single finding they have in the work they are doing does not need to be ADVERTISED along with a soundbite for crying out loud.
Can’t find a link for it, but President Trump was talking about the things hidden in the Smithsonian today that need to be exposed. I was laughing so hard because I have read the book “Horse” by Geraldine Brooks. If I recall, the Smithsonian, according to the book, had (and still most likely does) houses the body of the famous horse who sired many others who went on to win the Kentucky Derby.
So much of our culture and history has been hidden for reasons I cannot fathom.
So much of our Past has been hidden in the Smithsonian. I cannot fathom the Genius of President Trump. That he knows where so much of our HUMAN history has been buried.
That is a REAL CRIME. And am so grateful President Trump is on the case.
Secretariat? 🐎
Man o War? 🐎
Retired IG, Horse, by Geraldine Brooks, is one of the best books I have ever read! And the most important TB racehorse, Lexington, from the 1850’s, was in a back corner/warehouse of the Smithsonian. The recreation of the story in the form of an historical novel is magnificent!!!!
“So much of our culture and history has been hidden for reasons I cannot fathom.”
I’ve often heard the Smithsonian referred to as “the nations attic.” For many of the items housed there, I don’t think of it so much as them being deliberately hidden from view. Rather, I take a much simpler approach, that there simply isn’t enough floor space to display all of the museum’s possessions, and to construct a building large enough would simply not be practical. That, and the labor required to maintain all those displays would be cost prohibitive, to the point where the nation might sour on the thought of spending money that’s better spent elsewhere. Better to simply rotate artifacts into and out of storage, thus keeping the displays more interesting.
It strikes me that if they had a designated fall guy in case things went off the rails, it would be Clapper.
If that’s the case, he was probably only given enough information to keep him doing what they needed him to do.
The biggest laugh I ever heard on Judge Judy was from some moronic defendant who started spouting some completely unbelievable nonsense as his defense. When the judge interrupted him and asked if he really expected her to believe that, he said, “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!”
And now we have on record our moronic former DNI, James Clapper, saying the exact same thing!
The truth really IS stranger than fiction!
When you say to someone, “That’s my story and I’m sticking to it!”, it’s the tell that both you and the person you are speaking to know full well that what you are saying is pure BS.
It is that there are no checks and balances in the IC 4th branch.
They do what the political forces want them to.
Then use a security clearance for protection purposes!
“They do what the Left’s political forces want them to.” Just a little correction. 🙂
I always wondered why were the allowing so many Russian intel agents in America before the alleged hacking if they knew exactly where to go to expelled them.
I hear ya Sundance, but I got to say that I don’t share your position on Adm. Rogers. He gets no pass from me.
I have a higher expectation of him being a high-ranking officer in the military. While I do believe he probably informed PDJT that something was afoot in the IC regarding him & Russia, I also note that he appeared to be nowhere to be found when PDJT was being impeached for the Russia collusion hoax or on any other topic.
Rogers knew what was going on, even if he didn’t know the full extent of this operation, he knew there was something going on that didn’t meet the smell test. He had an obligation to out this entire operation & fall on his sword for ‘going on to get along’. That’s what I take away from his email to “Jim, John, Jim”. He crafted that email with a spineless, passive, & verbose response. I’d have far more respect for Rogers if he had told JJJ straight up that he couldn’t support & sign off on this intelligence product as it was conducted outside the norms of regular trade-craft & as I always stated to my personnel…
“It’s imperative to be right, then to be fast!” They were up against Obamas clock & they all knew it was for nefarious reasons. UNACCEPTABLE!
In Rogers’ defense:
Even simply refusing to play the game as fully as every one else in the IC was,
His name was dragged through the mud and he was nearly bankrupted,
as well as having his son threatened with more bankrupting lawfare.
He was in a tough spot. Anyone who privately/publicly backed PDJT, dug deep and went cowboy was targeted.
Its God’s will that SD is still breathing, for instance.
Clapper and Rogers were high-ranking officers with an oath to protect the US Constitution.
Higher standard applies.
No he wasn’t. Admiral Rodgers retired very comfortably shortly after the Russia hoax was revealed. He suffered nothing more that a halfassed attempt to terminate him from his NSA job at Brennan’s insistence, as a result of meeting with then-candidate Donald Trump. His family was not targeted in any way either.
Facts matter.
Rogers knew what was going on, even if he didn’t know the full extent of this operation, he knew there was something going on that didn’t meet the smell test. He had an obligation to out this entire operation & fall on his sword
Add Judge Collyer and FBI Deputy Director Bill Priestap to that list.
“it is largely overlooked that Rogers only held a “moderate confidence” in the overall report finding. It was only Brennan and Comey who claimed “high confidence” in the overall report content.”
It seems to me if Mike Rogers knew they were trying to use the IC for a political hit job against Trump then he should have refused to put visa name on it.
Even putting “moderate confidence” was dishonest and the move of a worm.
Absolutely.
I keep hearing about statute of limitation horse pucky mixed in.
When did treason get a limitation?
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Hell, Clapper may as well flip! He’s cooked.
This original plot against our president was so wrought with turmoil, and angst, that it feels decades old. 😱
*That is discounting the raid and assassination attempts. 👹🔥
Dear God, I pray for an accounting, and a just resolution for this ongoing evil!🙏🇺🇲
❤️🤍💙❤️🤍💙
The Washington Post is complicit:
On the very same day the email was sent from Clapper to Rogers, etal, Dec 22, 2016, 7 days before the junk Joint Analysis Report was delivered, a writer at the Washington Post wrote ‘the’ defining article that was meant to solidfy Crowdstrike’s authority on computers and informed the world that the very same Russian Fuzzy Bear & Cozy Bear that hacked the DNC and influenced the American election were involved in hacking military computers and causing untoward military damage in UKRAINE. By line Elaine Nakashima
The byline is familiar, because six months earlier a writer at the Washington Post wrote “the” defining article that was meant to cause the downfall of a Presidential candidate when the world was informed that the Russians had hacked the DNC, and by connection interfered in the United States elections. Crowdstrike informed the world that “it was so” and the Russia Hoax narrative was rolled out. By line Elaine Nakashima
Note. The Crowdstrike report on the hacking of the Ukraine military was debunked shortly after it was released, but it didn’t matter. The Intelligence just needed to implicate Russia and the Crowdstrike report had served it’s purpose.
Some suggest:
It appears that veiled Controllers are working to keep us focused on outrageous corruptions of our Republic which we cannot stop, made visible with Limited Hangout Theater. Like this series of riveting exposés here.
While visibility is suppressed of profound corruptions inside our bodies by the coerced mass injections of modRNA.
Every day, we must be distracted and new revelations must be suppressed of the progressing mass bio-attrition of the West only. (The China/Russia axis did not do this to their populace.)
https://www.insidemrnavaccines.com/
Better pray you don’t need blood.
https://jonfleetwood.substack.com/p/is-americas-blood-supply-tainted
This all evidently “softening” us up in preparation for the coming takedown blow.
https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/attack-of-the-replicons
Thanks for the laugh, Sundance, referring to Clapper’s “doofusness“. Reminds me of the old movies where someone shouted out one’s entrance to a meeting or grand event.
…..”and now, introducing…..his royal Doofusness !!”
Somehow it just works when describing Clapper….to a “T” !!!!!! Hahahaha
Again, the story moves a bit closer to whether the DNC/Clinton emails were ‘hacked’ or downloaded locally. We know the answer. So does Julian Assange. I look forward to the time that, despite all the political machinations about the ‘Russian involvement’, we move toward an investigation of the murder of Seth Rich. We currently talk about the ‘statute of limitations’ on much of the conspiracy that has happened. There is no statute of limitations on murder.
The DOJ should release Julian Assange from the consent decree he was coerced into signing. His prosecution was nothing more than the corrupt hoax participates throwing a bag over him and bury all the dirt he had on them. He is a foreign journalist working from a foreign country.
A pardon from the president would certainly be appropriate.
” James Clapper was always a doofus”
Whatever Clapper lacks intellectually, he more than makes up for in “flexible integrity”.
On the sliding scale of integrity!
Where is Adm Rogers now? He “seems” to be close to being an honest broker. Would he speak publicly and can he?
I think Adm. Rogers is till working with Talon Cyber Security. Israeli-based cyber security firm.
Also, some treepers have posted that Gen. Clapper could be recalled to active duty and face court martial as a work around to DOJ dragging their feet. The same would apply to Adm. Rogers would it not?
Haul them both in for questioning.
We may never see criminal prosecutions for these acts. I’ve been considering how any of this could still lead to a positive outcome for the country.
I think back to COVID, when a large portion of Americans became aware of how “experts” politicized the virus to eliminate PDJT. There’s a natural public revulsion toward people who hide behind the “expert” label to shape political outcomes.
We’ve seen the same with the term “public servant,” used by some government employees to sanitize or excuse malicious behavior. People are growing increasingly repulsed by those who call themselves “public servants”.
Perhaps widespread exposure could build a strong and justifiable distrust of those hiding behind the banner of the “Intelligence Community,” to the point where the public’s default reaction is disbelief when they present supposedly unimpeachable declarations that push us toward another war. Over time, I hope that distrust may further erode the credibility of those who shelter behind that title.
The ninth level of hell is reserved exclusively for traitors: Obama, Clinton(s), Comey, Brennan, Clapper, Wray, McCord, Weissman, Eisen, and so many others. Gonna be a full room.
Time to flip Mike Roger’s. He’s the only one that was not 100% on board and questioned it all. Clapper will sing first with the first turning of the screws, He is the weakest link.
There’s no doubt the intended outcome was to create internal confusion amid the U.S. electorate, and seed a media narrative.
This was after the election of Nov 8 2016. Based on how it played out (I assume “they” more or less stuck to their plan), the aim was to (1) assign a special counsel; (2) because nobody is clean, get enough evidence to drive PDJT out of office.
When Comey was fired, he called an audible; and managed to save the plan by getting the special counsel appointed.
But PDJT was clean (who would have guessed!), and none of his compatriots were willing to lie, even under immense pressure. We were that close to a catastrophe.
Look for Clapper to develop dementia or alzheimers any day now…
Or suffer a heart attack. Natural or induced.
Right. The .25 caliber heart attack to the back of the head.
I remember posting on CTH that I believed that Admiral Rodger’s was a good intelligence man and wondered what became of him after President Trump’s first term. One of the other posters said that Rodger’s was not to be trusted inferring that Rodger’s was anti-Trump. I liked him and I still do.
I don’t think Adm. Rogers was/is anti-Trump, and I suspect he was a good officer coming up through the ranks. But like too many other officers that reach his rank and position, he’s a political establishment hack. He knows the activity is sketchy, possibly illegal, but it’s “political” and therefore not criminal because the institutions must be preserved.
One: How in the world did Clapper ever make it to three-stars?
Two: I know ADM Rogers did the right thing in the end but I’m surprised that a four-star flag officer would acquiesce to getting on board for something he knew was illegal. In the military you always expect your higher ups to do the right thing, to set the example, to be loyal to their oath of office.
Google says its someone else. I thought you said Rogers was cashing in on another job a few articles ago.
He “remained” at that time – until he retired sometime in Trump term 1.
Adm. Mike Rogers Director of NSA April 3, 2014 – May 4, 2018.
I think he stayed until his replacement was confirmed.
Never noticed this before now.
Adm. Mike Rogers was Director NSA April 3, 2014 – May 4, 2018
Jeff Sessions was AG February 9, 2017 – November 7, 2018
So Adm. Rogers goes to Trump Tower Nov. 17-18, 2016 and apparently informs President-elect Trump about the spying and whatever else. President-elect Trump then moves the transition team to his Bedminster, New Jersey property.
All good and well. But Adm. Rogers didn’t see the need to inform Senator (later AG) Jeff Sessions there is no need to recuse yourself because Russia collusion is most likely a hoax, and President Trump was spied on.
There are 3 Mike Rogers with association to government.
Naval Admiral Mike Rodgers, Retired Former NSA head.
Congressman Mike Rogers, AL-03
Former Congressman Mike Rogers, MI-08, who I believe I heard may be running for senate in 26.
Not to put words in the mouth of WORDMAN ™, but ‘Roger!’
Yeah, no legitimate expert considers phishing hacking. That whole thing was beyond dumb. Yet people bought it and, of course, they knew people would buy it.
If they can somehow show the DNC was not hacked (Seth Rich evidence), then the whole house of cards comes down where more eyes should open.
Ever since I laid eyes on Clapper I thought he looked dumb! He is dumb and takes no pride in trying to cover it uo!
About time Adm Mike Rogers is mentioned; he’s a good guy! He outed so many nefarious things that went on within the ‘government’ secret running of the world! The IC that took the wrong route in history and the advent of computers. They used to ‘burn’ the books, not so easy with computers.
Assange, Snowden, and Rogers let US in on the nefarious workings of the underbelly of the behemoth ‘secret services’ massive manipulations of the world of ‘leadership’……….
God Help US
Just ruthless people. “Don’t step out of line.”
Reminds me of the stupid arrows on the floor of Walmart during Convid…good to see Mike Rogers zig-zagged and didn’t follow the arrows.
Blondie is about as useless as Bondo Bill the Bagpipper. So why would Trump pick someone who tried to help out Obama with the Trayvon Hoax See Trayvon Hoax on youtube. Because when the Bagpipes were down and Trump was being impeached for something he didn’t do and all the lawyers ran away she said She believed in him and would represent him. She did and he moved on to see another day in office. Could this have been a set up. Very likely. Remember Desantis almost lost to that Gilliam gay Negro caught in the Hotel room with Crack and a Boy prostitute with Feces and blood all over the place. Sorry for the gross ness but it was printed and adds to the rottenness of the whole. Im sure this explains why she was chosen.
Below is right from Cash the counterfeit book Govt. Gangastas written by Kashup himself. And possibly the reason Trump chose him for the FIBBERS. Yesterday he said he interviews all sorts of people and they tell you what you wanna hear but when they get in there they are terrible. He was talking about Jerome Powell. In the same presser he was looking straight at Blondie and said Im looking at Blondie hoping she does SOMETHING.
Devin and the entire Republican HPSCI team knew that Schiff was full of it. The facts proved that Trump was obviously not a Russian asset. That was a lie made up by the Democrats. Yet even as Schiff went on the air spreading this lie, we couldn’t do a thing. We had proof that Schiff was lying, but since it was classified and we were committed to following the law, not leaking, and doing the investigation the right way, we just had to sit there and watch him lead the people astray. That is, until we released the Nunes Memo and later our HPSCI report of our entire investigation. The Nunes Memo disproved all of the lies Schiff had been telling for months. But he never apologized and was never questioned by the press.