James Clapper has been the leading character in the Liturgy that has reflected the failure of our National Intelligence Apparatus. James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence and CNN Talking Head, is a perpetually incorrect about the majority of his statements or predictions regarding intelligence matters. He has even done his best to harm others with his actions.
On March 5th, Clapper was on CNN performing his regular duties as a “far-left conspiracy theorist,” suggesting that Vladimir Putin was no better than Adolf Hitler.
“It’s always a mystery to us. We can only go on his statements and behavior, his demeanor and the things he causes to occur. I think that really gives a real insight into his character and for me, he’s a 21st Century Hitler.”
Yet, CNN host Jim Acosta didn’t challenge Clapper on his statements, or on the fact that a great deal of the aggression of Putin was seen under Clapper’s time in intelligence. Instead, Acosta played stooge to Clapper’s ignoring the fact that Putin has always been the person he has been, and that a large part of his aggression took place during the Obama Administration.
Clapper’s statements, limited in context only to the current conflict in Ukraine, attempt to circumvent Putin’s history in the region. Putin had his forces march into Chechnya, restoring Russian control in the once-independent area. In 2008, Putin’s forces entered the South Ossetia portion of Georgia, taking and holding control. In 2009, incursions into Crimea in Ukraine had begun, leading to the region’s annexation in 2014. Clapper’s statements nearly echo the statements made by Western leaders about Adolf Hitler circa 1941.
The point is that Clapper has been in the room for the discussion for more than 20 years about Putin’s brutalities. Even the Chechnya actions are a liturgy on human rights violations. Clapper was missing during the many incursions into Ukraine under the Obama Administration. Is he still there when South Ossetia was captured? Is there still talk that he was as wicked as Adolf Hitler back then?
Hitler himself didn’t–overnight–reveal himself as an aggressionist. If you look at the parallels that exist between Hitler and Putin, you’ll see a pattern. In the decades leading to World War II Hitler violated and ignored numerous peace and treaty agreements. Putin did the same with the Non-Proliferation Treaty and other violations of human-rights accords. Hitler annexed Austria 1938 and annexed Czechoslovakia 1938. In 1939, he invaded Poland. All this while European power tried to prevent war in all possible circumstances. Putin, on the other hand has been known to violate sovereignty in various countries around him for over a decade.
To heed Clapper’s statements regarding Putin in our current time would be no different than taking advice on Nazi Germany from Neville Chamberlain about 1943. Clapper, his bosses and now Trump want to blame for the Russian fallout. It’s a complete and utter joke.
Yet, while Clapper’s statements on Putin and Russia are disqualifying on their face, they are not worthy of him losing his clearances. Being a partisan hack does not qualify one for being stripped of clearances; however, I believe Clapper’s history against Trump, as well as his cover for Biden, are deserving of that very action.
As you may recall, when Russiagate was just beginning, Clapper used to make rounds on Sunday evening shows. Clapper spoke of information that he knew which would have dismissed the entire mess. Clapper was silent in 2016, when he permitted Democrats to try to discredit Trump by suggesting collusion. 2019 FederalistIt was reported that Clapper had been aware that there wasn’t any collusion back in 2016, however he didn’t stop Trump from continuing his actions over the following years. Democrats were using this to incite an impeachment against Trump.
Yet, Clapper’s declarative statements regarding the matter were nowhere to be found — until 2017, when Chuck Todd asked the former DNI point-blank about any evidence regarding Trump’s alleged collusion with Russia. Clapper replied:
“We did not include any evidence in our report, and I say, ‘our,’ that’s N.S.A., F.B.I. C.I.A. and my office, Director of National Intelligence. There was nothing that indicated collusion between Trump campaign officials and Russians. There was no evidence of that included in our report.”
This declaration didn’t stop Rod Rosenstein from appointing Mueller as Special Counsel, and several more years of costly investigation. Clapper couldn’t be found to critique or question this unnecessary investigation. Clapper knew Trump was innocent, and yet allowed Dems to politicize the matter as a means of “getting Trump.” Even in November of 2019, Clapper was again on CNN declaring that Trump was helped by Russia during the 2016 election, almost criticizing his previous statements. While I believe this lack of action rises to a level of dishonesty, again, I don’t believe that Clapper should have had his clearances stripped.
Yet, most recently, Clapper’s partisan-hackery took a turn for what I believe to be disqualifying of his intelligence clearances. It was discovered that Hunter Biden owned a number of laptops that were kept by the FBI at the end 2020. On that laptop were numerous details about Hunter’s unsavory behavior, as well as details about his various business dealings, for which he lacked any qualifications besides sharing 50 percent of his DNA with a man who would one day be Vice President and later, President. It was the worst nightmare of those on the left, because all of the behavior that was warned to potentially come from a Trump, was found, in great pictorial detail, on Hunter’s laptop.
When it came time to report on these findings, the media went to insane lengths to destroy the truth, including digging up as many “intelligence officials” as they could to declare this laptop business as a “Russian Disinformation Campaign.” Who, you might ask, was among the first to sign up? James Clapper was the only one to sign up. Clapper signed a letter that stated that the growing Biden scandal had all the “classic earmarks of a Russian disinformation campaign.”
John Brennan and Clapper were disgraced ex-intelligence officials who covered the Left and destructive information that would have derail the Biden campaign. The media tried everything they could to use these vague and unsubstantiated declarations made by partisan fools to help Basement Biden. By the admission of the very letter that was used to debunk literal facts, there was no evidence of any Russian involvement with the release of the emails or the information from the laptop; however, that didn’t stop Clapper et al., from stating so. They created disinformation to try to suppress real information. As a result, Clapper essentially told the American people that the evidence and intelligence said something that it didn’t say.
Clapper is now irreparably damaging the American trust. He should surrender or forcefully lift his clearances immediately.
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