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- Clapper claims he ‘didn’t lie’ about NSA spying on Americans, but ‘didn’t understand’ the question
NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn’t lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn’t spying on American citizens – three months before Edward Snowden told everyone it was.Mar 6, 2019 03:14USA News - Clapper vs Brennan: Ex-DNI chief says ex-CIA head’s attacks on Trump becoming 'an issue’John Brennan and his inflammatory rhetoric aimed at Donald Trump’s “treasonous behavior” are becoming “an issue in and of itself,” James Clapper, former Director of National Intelligence, has said of the ex-CIA chief.Aug 20, 2018 14:03USA News
- ‘The best interests of the people’: Ex-US top spy Clapper justifies election interferenceFret not, people of the over 80 countries where the US has interfered in elections – it was done in your “best interests,” according to former head of US Intelligence James Clapper.Jun 2, 2018 15:34USA News
- Ex-DNI Clapper leaked Steele dossier info to CNN, then tried to deny it in Congress – House reportJames Clapper, the former director of national intelligence-turned CNN pundit, first denied and then admitted to discussing the anti-Trump 'Steele dossier' with a CNN journalist while in office, an intelligence report reveals.Apr 28, 2018 02:35USA News
- Ex-spook Clapper celebrates 5yrs since lying to Congress, as statute of limitations expiresIt's been five years since former US spy chief James Clapper lied to Congress about the NSA's giant surveillance program, and the statute of limitations for his crime is coming to end, guaranteeing him a peaceful retirement.Mar 12, 2018 12:40USA News
- 'Lying to Congress': Trump lashes out at former spymaster over CNN commentsUS President Donald Trump has fired back at former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, bringing up his testimony before Congress, after Clapper told CNN that Trump was unfit to be president and should resign.Aug 24, 2017 16:00USA News
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