James Clapper, spymaster under former president Barack Obama, is throwing his weight behind Joe Biden’s argument claiming that now Donald Trump is out of office, he can’t be trusted with classified information.
The former Director of National Intelligence told CNN’s New Day that Trump has “demonstrated a disdain for both the substance of intelligence as well as its protection.“
He also accused the former president of “weaponizing” classified material in the past and even sharing it “with the Russians“. He did not however, provide any evidence to support his statement.
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RT reports: Clapper also added financial debt as a vague reason for denying Trump the briefings.
“And so I just don’t – and plus there is potential financial entanglements, there is debt, which to a normal person would be a real red flag for a judicator or somebody deciding on whether someone should have access to classified information. So for all those reasons, I think this is absolutely the right decision,” he said.
President Biden mentioned briefly in a Friday interview he had hesitation over whether Trump should receive intelligence briefings.
“What value is giving him an intelligence briefing? What impact does he have at all, other than the fact he might slip and say something?” he said.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki, however, later clarified the comments and appeared to suggest Trump receiving briefings would not be up to his predecessor.
“The president was expressing his concern about former President Trump receiving access to sensitive intelligence,” she said to the Washington Post, “but he also has deep trust in his own intelligence team to make a determination about how to provide intelligence information if at any point the former President Trump requests a briefing.”
Clapper being asked his ‘expert’ opinion on whether someone should be trusted with classified information or not may come across as at least partly ironic. The former intelligence official is well-known for falsely claiming under oath that the government was “not wittingly” collecting phone records of millions of Americans, a program that was exposed by whistleblower and former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.
The testimony before Congress led many, including Sen. Rand Paul (R-Kentucky), to repeatedly call for Clapper to face legal consequences for lying under oath.
Clapper has since tried to defend himself by claiming he simply did not understand the question he was being asked.
“I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake, and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about,” Clapper told CNN in 2019. “I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time, I just didn’t understand that. ”
Niamh Harris
So that means China can be totally trusted with OUR Intel Briefings?
Clapper is a Lieing Communist just like Brannon. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/77836317da67811dcd9da07d09a33390e3e2601c47054b7566db37e3a1644389.jpg
…and Jihadist
Only under trump was there ever peace in tbe middle east for the first time in Barons. Trumps biggest mistake was to believe their manipulative deceitful lies about covid being from Wuhan and their disingenuous perversitirs of chinas status politically They set him up and then played both sides like a fiddle In rheir rigging of the outcomes to suit their Lord and Master. Trump and Zi should both learn a lesson about how bot to ever trust anybody How nothing is what it seems and how theyre all in it together .
First fine in aeons I typed .And it’s exactly as Lyndon La Rouche said their greatest fear was if Trunp and Zi getting along That would have been disaster for them and their globalist plot imaginable Even worse than peace in the middle east which they gave determinedly manipulated to never happen ..
The TRUTH about intel is explained by understanding how USAPs work Presidents Generals Admirals etcetera are NOT told the truth about what science is doing AT ALL They are INTENTIONALLY kept ignorant and so are EASILY deceived and so the whole WORLD .” Nothing that is done in secret comes from God ” the Bile instructs us and ” God does nothing in secret ” it adds .All secrets and secrecy come from the other source.
Unacknowledged Special Access Projects .Trillions are taken from taxpayers pockets each year to fund them and ONLY the recipients are allowed to know what and where the money is spent on .Trillions each year to just a TINY few .And they are told if they speak out they will be executed. Imagine how much corruption total secrecy facilitates Globally .Imagine biological weapons viruses diseases as well as other devious activities are permitted .And all under the umbrella of rule if laws secrecy
Twep Terminate With Extreme Prejudice .Google it for more .
In Russia or China these traitors and their families would be dead . Only in America do we listen to village idiots..
clapper is an admitted liar,. he committed and admitted to lying to congress.. so the liar is backing up the lying alzheimers patient “who is also a proven liar”
I’m shocked,.. end sarc
You can’t trust the FBI with intel (Seth Rich, Anthony Weiner, Hillary (Death) Clinton, either it seems. Can Clapper be trusted (I mean really, the name – Clapper – sounds like the STD). Yeah, not a lot of trusting can be done in the USA Clapser.
Can anyone believe that Clapper was a General in the Air Force. No wonder our country is so screwed-up.