Clapper:
Obama Was Behind The Whole Thing
22
July, 2018
Former
Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper admitted in
a CNN interview
Saturday that former President Obama instigated the ongoing
investigations into Donald Trump and those in his orbit.
Speaking
with CNN's
Anderson Cooper, Clapper let slip:
If it weren’t for President Obama we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set up a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today including Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation. President Obama is responsible for that. It was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place.
James Clapper admits to Anderson Cooper that Obama set off the sequence of events that led to the Mueller investigation by tasking the intelligence community assessment
Recall
in May, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley
(R-IA) fired off a letter to
the Department of Justice demanding unredacted versions of text
messages between FBI agent Peter Strzok and former bureau attorney
Lisa Page, including one exchange which took place after
Strzok had returned from London as
part of the recently launched "Operation
Crossfire Hurricane" referring
to the White House "running" an unknown investigation.
Strzok
had been in London to
interview Australian ambassador Alexander Downer about a
drunken conversation with Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos,
who - after reportedly being fed information - mentioned
Russia having Hillary Clinton's emails.
Strzok: And hi. Went well, best we could have expected. Other than [REDACTED] quote: “the White House is running this.” My answer, “well, maybe for you they are.” And of course, I was planning on telling this guy, thanks for coming, we’ve got an hour, but with Bill [Priestap] there, I’ve got no control….
Page: Yeah, whatever (re the WH comment). We’ve got the emails that say otherwise.
And
with Clapper's admission - it looks like Strzok's text stating "the
White House is running this" may have been right on the money.
Update: Meanwhile,
House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) told Fox's Maria
Bartiromo that the
American public needs to see an unredacted version of the Carter
Page FISA application.
.@RepGoodlatte: "I have had the opportunity... to read these FISA warrant applications without all of those redactions... and I think that it is critically important that the American people have the opportunity to see most of the rest of those documents."
LIVE: TRUMP TO DECLASSIFY MORE CARTER PAGE FISA APPLICATION. GOP DEMANDS UNREDACTED VERSION
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