BREAKING Obama Intel Chief LIED and Leaked Classified Information To CNN – Was Rewarded With Huge Payday!
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Former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) turned CNN commentator James Clapper not only leaked information related to the infamous “Steele dossier” to CNN’s Jake Tapper while Clapper was in office – it appears he also lied about it to Congress, under oath. It seems the truth is a real problem for these people and they truly do not comprehend exactly what taking an oath entails.
By definition, an OATH can mean three different things. It can be a ritualistic declaration, typically based on an appeal to God or to some person or object of particular reverence that one will speak the truth, keep a promise, or remain faithful. There is also a ritual form of an oath used in making such a declaration or a thing promised in such a way in an effort to convey the seriousness of such a promise. It can also be an irreverent or profane use of the name of God or of a sacred thing to express anger or emphasize a statement. Apparently, Clapper understands the third definition only and the meaning of the word integrity not at all.
Clapper was one of the “two national security officials” cited in CNN’s report. A report that was published just mere minutes after Buzzfeed released the full Steele dossier in all its salacious glory.
The Federalist’s Sean Davis states the revelation that Clapper was responsible for leaking details of both the dossier and briefings to two presidents on the matter is significant, because former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey wrote in one of four memos that he leaked that the briefing of President Trump on the salacious and unverified allegations from the dossier was necessary because “CNN had them and were looking for a news hook.”
So Comey said that President Trump needed to be briefed on the Dossier’s allegations since CNN “had them”…because James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence at the time, provided that information to the same network he now works for.
And just whose idea was it to brief President Trump on the dossier? JAMES CLAPPER
According to Comey’s memos – “I said there was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the [President-elect] about alone or in a very small group,” Comey wrote.
The revelations detailing Clapper’s leak to CNN can be found in a 253-page report by the House Intelligence Committee majority released on Friday – which also found “no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded, coordinated, or conspired with the Russian government.”
The Federalist’s Sean Davis notes that the revelations about former DNI James Clapper were made in a new 253-page report from the House Intelligence Committee.
“Clapper flatly denied ‘discussing[ing] the dossier or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists,’” the committee found. Clapper also explicitly told Congress that he had never discussed the dossier with any journalists. As Davis notes, Clapper later changed his story when his lies were discovered and he was confronted about his communications with Tapper.
“Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the ‘dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,’ and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,” the report states. “Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’ a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’ the highly-classified version of the ICA.”
The revelation is significant because former FBI Director James Comey wrote in his memos that when he met with President Donald Trump, before CNN and BuzzFeed published stories on the salacious and still unproven allegations contained in the dossier, he told the president that “CNN had [the dossier] and [was] looking for a news hook.”
The congressional report on Russian interference noted that it was this very briefing of Trump that multiple media organizations used as an excuse to publish the unverified dossier.
The House Intelligence Committee’s report on Russian meddling explained that it was that meeting that Comey had with Trump that the media used as their hook to publish the dossier: