James Clapper Admits To Unmasking People On A Regular Basis
Patrick Howley
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Former Obama administration director of national intelligence James Clapper admits that he made regular requests to “unmask” people.
“Unmasking” is the process by which the Obama administration revealed the classified names of members of President Donald Trump’s team who had foreign contacts, in order to open up the possibility for FISA warrants and other surveillance measures.
Clapper will not be prosecuted for lying under oath about the scope of his surveillance activities, since the deadline for his arrest has expired and Attorney General Jeff Sessions did nothing about it. So apparently Clapper is comfortable enough to explain how he oversaw regular unmasking like the kind that unmasked members of President Donald Trump’s team for politically-oriented persecution. Clapper made these admissions in a radio interview with host Hugh Hewitt.
The brilliant reporter Alex Swoyer writes for The Washington Times:
“Mr. Clapper said he did not know how that could happen, and that during his time as DNI director, he would make a unmasking request “once every couple of weeks, something like that, over the six and a half years.”
“I’d come across reports that, and I felt, you know, that it was my duty to understand, my obligation as the director of national intelligence, to understand these interactions when U.S. persons were interacting with valid foreign intelligence targets, particularly Russians, our adversary,” Mr. Clapper said.
“I’d come across reports that, and I felt, you know, that it was my duty to understand, my obligation as the director of national intelligence, to understand these interactions when U.S. persons were interacting with valid foreign intelligence targets, particularly Russians, our adversary,” Mr. Clapper said.
Swoyer’s segment ends
James Clapper’s efforts to try to use the Deep State to sink President Trump are well-documented here on our pages.
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