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DrJohn

 

We have been fed an unending line of BS from James Comey, John Brennan and James Clapper.  Clapper, in particular, has been a source of egregious deceit. He’s been lying for some time. Remember this one?

“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?” committee member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper during the March 12 hearing.



In response, Clapper replied quickly: “No, sir.”

“There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect [intelligence on Americans], but not wittingly,” the U.S. intelligence chief told Wyden and the rest of the committee.

That said, “particularly in the case of NSA and CIA, there are structures against tracking American citizens in the United States for foreign intelligence purposes,” Clapper added.

Now his defense is he didn’t lie. He made a mistake:

James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence, fired back Tuesday at President Trump’s claim that he is a “lying machine.”

Appearing on ABC’s “The View,” Clapper denied that he had misled Congress when he testified on the spying activities of the National Security Agency in 2013, saying he had simply “made a mistake” when responding to a question.

Yeah, well so did Michael Flynn and George Papadopoulos. The only difference is Clapper wasn’t charged for lying.

Then as the IG report looms Clapper begins to spill the beans. They did spy on Trump:

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denied on Wednesday that the FBI sought to spy on President Trump‘s campaign, saying that the bureau used an informant to “determine what the Russians were up to.”

“The intent though … was not to spy on the campaign, but rather to determine what the Russians were up to,” Clapper said on PBS’s “NewsHour.”

“Were they trying to penetrate the campaign, gain access, gain leverage, gain influence?” he continued. “That was the concern the FBI had, and I think they were just doing their job in trying to protect out political system.”

Clapper said Trump should be happy they were spying on him. They were protecting him:

Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper used the word spy while discussing the Trump campaign surveillance scandal in an appearance on Tuesday’s The View. Clapper said the spy was there for Russian meddling purposes and that Trump should be happy such a person existed.

President Trump has claimed for months now that his campaign for president was surveilled. Many did not take him seriously, however, last night law professor Jonathan Turley said he was right.

“With the informant business, well, the point here is the Russians,” Clapper said. “Not spying on the campaign but what are the Russians doing? And in a sense, unfortunately, what they were trying to do is protect our political system and protect the campaign.”

Which explains why they shared their concerns with Trump and warned him about it.

Not.

Then there was the admission that there was a spy in the Trump campaign, but not really. You see, it was an informant:

The Washington Post’s report on those comments said Trump was making a reference to a “confidential source” who the FBI used to “aid its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.” But the story disputed Trump’s suggestion that the FBI may have secretly spied on his campaign, and said there’s “no evidence to suggest that the source was inserted into the Trump campaign…”

The story instead chose to describe the informant as someone who “did engage in a pattern of seeking out and meeting Trump campaign advisers.”

Who spied on Trump.

spy

(spī)

n. pl. spies (spīz)

1. One who secretly collects information concerning the enemies of a government or group.
2. One who secretly collects information for a business about one or more of its competitors.
3. One who secretly keeps watch on another or others.

in·for·mant

(ĭn-fôr′mənt)

n.

1.

a. One that gives information.
b. One who informs against others; an informer.
2. One who furnishes linguistic or cultural information to a researcher.

 

One could successfully argue that spy and informant are synonyms. Spying on campaigns is not the norm. Michael Barone makes the amusing observation that Nixon should have thought of using the argument the left is making today:

“FBI used informant to investigate Russia ties to campaign, not to spy,” read the headline on a lengthy New York Times story May 18.

“The Justice Department used a suspected informant to probe whether Trump campaign aides were making improper contacts with Russia in 2016,” reads a story in the May 21 Wall Street Journal.

So much for those who dismissed charges of Obama administration infiltration of Donald Trump’s campaign as paranoid fantasy. Defenders of the Obama intelligence and law enforcement apparatus have had to fall back on the argument that this infiltration was for Trump’s — and the nation’s — own good.

It’s an argument that evidently didn’t occur to Richard Nixon’s defenders when it became clear that Nixon operatives burglarized and wiretapped the Democratic National Committee in June 1972.

Liberals are blathering on about Trump endangering the “American system.” Carl Bernstein

“We’re seeing the president being enabled by the Republican Party in Washington, which is not putting the truth or the common national interest above partisan interest, but rather is trying to bury this investigation. The president is engaged in a cover-up to bury a legitimate investigation. And he’s being enabled by those in in the Republican Party with great success,” he said.

Bernstein and all the other liberals ignore the fact that a whole lot of people have been fired or demoted from the FBI and DOJ.

Department of Justice (Non-FBI):

FBI:

And that’s only so far.

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/999442400820031494

Trump is not destroying the system, he’s cleaning it out. And it does need cleaning.

  • The sources claim there is a demand within the agency to prosecute former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe. They also say the bureau has become totally politicized.

But you have to laugh at Clapper’s canard that they were trying to protect Trump. That would also require us to believe that Mueller is trying to protect Trump. You know, by framing all his campaign staff and mining alleged crimes from a decade ago in hopes of suborning perjury that could be used against Trump.

That kind of protection.

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