{"id":1847048,"date":"2023-02-14T14:34:24","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847048"},"modified":"2023-02-14T14:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T19:35:32","slug":"james-clapper-cant-stop-lying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/james-clapper-cant-stop-lying\/","title":{"rendered":"James Clapper Can\u2019t Stop Lying"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">10<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjames-clapper-cant-stop-lying%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1847048&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>In an interview with The Washington Post\u2019s \u201cfact checker,\u201d James Clapper was the former Director for National Intelligence <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/13\/hunter-biden-laptop-claims-russian-disinfo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You can also submit<\/a> Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Don&#8217;t be misled<\/a> Public opinion about a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=00000175-4393-d7aa-af77-579f9b330000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Letter<\/a> he and 50 other former intel officials signed during the 2020 presidential campaign warning that the New York Post\u2019s Hunter Biden laptop story could be Russian deception. \u201cThere was message distortion,\u201d Clapper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/13\/hunter-biden-laptop-claims-russian-disinfo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tells<\/a> The Washington Post. \u201cAll we were doing was raising a yellow flag that this could be Russian disinformation. Politico deliberately distorted what we said. It was clear in paragraph five.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t clear at all. The purpose of the letter, apparent then as it is now, was to discredit the Post\u2019s scoop and provide Democrats and the media with ammunition to reject it. <em>Naturally<\/em> intel officials couldn\u2019t definitively say that Hunter\u2019s emails, which implicated Joe Biden as a business partner, were concocted by Putin\u2019s spooks. They did not have access to the laptop. This was to get former intel chiefs to question the story. A perfunctory CYA paragraph doesn\u2019t change anything.<\/p>\n<p>As is so often the case with California Congressman Adam Schiff, who used the intelligence committee to clear out partisan disinformation, the laptop lie started. Schiff was immediately informed of the news. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/521712-ratcliffe-schiff-battle-over-biden-emails-politicized-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Claim<\/a> That \u201cwe know\u201d \u2014 a phrase he used numerous times \u2014 that the emails had been planted by the Kremlin. But everyone knew by that point that the congressman had been an irredeemable liar. John Ratcliffe, director of national intelligence, made a statement. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ratcliffe-hunter-biden-laptop-emails-not-russian-disinformation-campaign\">stressing<\/a> that, actually, there was no evidence to back Schiff\u2019s claims.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s when Natasha Bertrand, the dependable Dem dupe who had passed along so many other fake stories for the intel establishment, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/10\/19\/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>\u201d Politico reports that more than 50 former high-ranking intelligence officials signed a petition stating that the laptop had been stolen. \u201chas all the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d Clapper, who was the head of a domestic surveillance program at the time and later became a prominent signee, was one of the most notable. <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/432931-dem-rips-clapper-he-needs-to-stop-making-excuses-for-lying-to-the\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lies<\/a> It to Congress and John Brennan, former director of the CIA, a man who once <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2018\/03\/22\/john-brennan-shouldnt-be-lecturing-america-he-should-be-the-focus-of-a-congressional-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Oversaw<\/a> Illegal spying was done on a Senate staffer and then the operation was lied to the American people.<\/p>\n<p>The letter arrived exactly as expected. \u201cLook,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yGPfKkjDIts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a> When asked about the laptop during the presidential debate in 2020, \u201cthere are 50 former national intelligence folks who said that what he\u2019s accusing me of is a Russian plan.\u201d On \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/joe-biden-democratic-presidential-candidate-kamala-harris-60-mintues-interview-norah-odonnell-2020-10-25\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Called<\/a> The story \u201cdisinformation from the Russians.\u201d Clapper tells the Washington Post that he had absolutely no idea how the former vice president had framed the contents of the letter \u2014 which is, to be generous, implausible nonsense.<\/p>\n<p>If Clapper\u2019s letter was merely a good-faith warning, then why didn\u2019t any of the other signees push back against Biden\u2019s contention during their numerous television appearances? They didn&#8217;t even watch the presidential debates. Why didn\u2019t Clapper send a follow-up statement clarifying his position after the Politico headline purportedly \u201cdistorted\u201d What was the content of the letter? Was he not able to see the piece?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He knew exactly what he was doing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":831,"featured_media":1847051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[3680,18551,5334,6943],"class_list":["post-1847048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-cant","tag-clapper","tag-james","tag-lying"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/831"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1847048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1847048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1847051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1847048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1847048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1847048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}