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James Robert Clapper Jr. (born March 14, 1941) is a retired lieutenant general in the United States Air Force and is the former Director of National Intelligence, serving under President Barack Obama.
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I went on to say that 'I hoped he would abide by the long-standing principle of the [intelligence community] always telling 'truth to power'.
The Founding Fathers, in their genius, created three co-equal branches of government, and a built-in system of checks and balances, and I feel as though that is under assault, and is eroding.
You have to remember Putin's background. He's a KGB officer. That's what they do. They recruit assets.
Russia's aim wasn't to get anyone to actually believe the crazy stories they were publishing...The point of their influence operation was to overwhelm facts, to sow doubt that facts were even knowable.
Of course, the Russian effort affected the outcome. Surprising even themselves, they swung the election to a Trump win. To conclude otherwise stretches logic, common sense, and credulity to the breaking point.
Among those [Syrian] refugees are no doubt a significant number of ISIS terrorists.
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Trump should be happy that the FBI was SPYING on his campaign
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There was no involvement between the Trump campaign and the Russians (variously quoted)
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