Intel 'experts' who got Hunter's laptop wrong still on liberal media
Left-leaning media networks CNN and MSNBC continue to give ample airtime to a number of current and former intelligence officials, despite concerns about their credibility following the Trump-Russia collusion investigation and the Hunter Biden laptop scandal.
On Monday, during an appearance on "Don Lemon Tonight," former Director of National Intelligence and CNN national security analyst James Clapper said that one should assume all classified material obtained from former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home have been compromised.
"That is the worst-case assumption that you have to make. What is the potential damage that could be done to U.S. Intelligence capabilities? That is, sources, methods, trade crowds compromised? That can get very personal in the case of human assets," he said.
But, Clapper has made numerous comments over the years that are scrutinized to this day.
In March 2013, Clapper said the U.S. government does not "wittingly" collect data on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans, during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing.
However, following former NSA contractor Edward Snowden’s decision to leak top-secret information in 2013, it was revealed that the federal government does indeed collect data from the phone calls and internet communications of the American public. Clapper subsequently apologized in a letter to Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, stating his answer was "clearly erroneous."
Clapper has also been criticized for his commentary on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s sprawling Russia investigation.
In December 2017, Clapper told CNN that Russian President Vladimir Putin "knows how to handle an asset, and that’s what he’s doing with" Trump.
In a May 12 interview on MSNBC, Clapper was asked whether he agrees with Trump’s assertion that the Russia investigation was a "witch hunt," to which he said, "I don’t believe it is." He added he thought the issue would remain a "dark cloud" over Trump.
Following a 2016 Trump rally in Phoenix, Arizona Clapper reacted: "I really question his ability to be, his fitness to be in this office and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it. Maybe he is looking for a way out."
Clapper has previously told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he did not have any regrets about his comments about the investigation, pointing to past instances in which he said he "didn’t know" whether there was collusion, and the fact that he was only tasked with looking into election interference by the Russians.
But Clapper is hardly the only ex-intelligence official to emerge as a regular on CNN and MSNBC.
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There is much more.
I get the impression that the liberal media and the people it was willing to pay for commentary wanted to believe Trump was a traitor because they thought it would make it easier to defeat him and his agenda. The same goes for the federal officials who pushed the Russian collusion hoax and other alleged cases against Trump.
See, also:
What Does the FBI Removal of Timothy Thibault Say About the Hunter Biden Investigation?
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