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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Clapper: It's ‘A Good Thing' FBI Was Spying On Trump Campaign
2018-05-19
[Daily Caller] Former Director of Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday night on CNN that it was "a good thing" there was an FBI informant spying on the Trump campaign.

Clapper admitted the FBI "may have had someone who was talking to them in the campaign," referring to President Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign. He explained away the possibility of an FBI informant spying on the campaign as the bureau was trying to find out "what the Russians were doing to try to substantiate themselves in the campaign or influence or leverage it."

Obama’s Director of National Intelligence then went on to say, "So, if there was someone that was observing that sort of thing, that’s a good thing."

He also stated he believes "it’s hugely dangerous if someone like that is exposed because the danger to that person" and the potential "reluctance of others to be informants for the FBI" could possibly devastate the FBI.
Posted by:Besoeker

#16  Clapper should be strangled with his own entrails for this sort of traitorous destructive behavior towards the republic.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891   2018-05-19 23:33  

#15  That was the ideal, Crazy Fool. Reality often fell very short, as it so often does.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-19 18:52  

#14  Can't call it Feudal. In feudal times the 'lord' (or noble) had a responsibility to care for and protect his subjects (that is what they got for accepting his lordship and paying taxes). While we have a 'nobility' and a 'common' class - I don't see any evidence of that these days.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2018-05-19 18:01  

#13  ...if you measure it by classical definitions, its an oligarchy.
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2018-05-19 17:03  

#12  Please stop using the word “democracy.” One of the commies’ best tactics is weaponizing our language to steer us into falsehood. These United States are not a democracy.
Posted by: Lowspark   2018-05-19 14:25  

#11  Then Hillary would be president and US troops would be hip deep in Russia by now.

It seems to me the Russia thing was ginned up because Mrs. Clinton lost. Had she won they would not have fussed about Russia trying to impact the vote, something Russia has tried to do since Stalin was running things.
Posted by: trailing wife   2018-05-19 11:54  

#10  diGenova is about as "reliable" as all of the bombshell announcements or "revelations" from Trey Gowdy, et al.
Posted by: DooDahMan   2018-05-19 08:15  

#9  The illusion of democracy.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-19 07:58  

#8  I think it's been going on here in Britistan for a while IMHO It's why Churchill "lost" an election.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-05-19 07:29  

#7  Remember when the first unelected president decided to actually run for the office and the party selected him for a full term? Remember who ran against him in the primaries? Remember who we got?

Ford. Reagan. Carter.

We had to endure 4 years of the latter before, we corrected the 'selected' choice. "It's his turn" - motto of the Stupid Party
Posted by: P2kontheroad   2018-05-19 07:05  

#6  It's not spying on the president elect, it's the idea that for a couple of presidential spans the leader of the country has been selected, not elected.

Becoming rather obvious isn't it? Might be more than... "a couple."
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-19 06:11  

#5  You know what's scary....

It's not spying on the president elect, it's the idea that for a couple of presidential spans the leader of the country has been selected, not elected.

Our only saving grace was the more opaque the bureaucracy, the less competent.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2018-05-19 06:04  

#4  All of them are dirty, they naturally assumed Trump was too. All they had to do was commit multiple serious felonies to say on him and they'd find something. Then Hillary would be president and US troops would be hip deep in Russia by now.
Posted by: Herb McCoy   2018-05-19 05:49  

#3  Having the "clap" does eat brain cells. That and a steady diet of MSM lead paint chips.
Posted by: Woodrow   2018-05-19 05:07  

#2  I'll wait and see what happens. I wish I could trust this guy's diGenova predictions.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2018-05-19 04:17  

#1  He also stated he believes "it’s hugely dangerous if someone like that is exposed because the danger.....

Here it comes, that "in the interest of national security' cone of silence.
Posted by: Besoeker   2018-05-19 01:44  

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