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Home Front: Politix
Making Russia great again
2017-07-22
[Wisconsin Public Radio] Leaving federal government service after decades can be, well, liberating.

Just ask James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, and John Brennan, the former leader of the Central Intelligence Agency. They unloaded on President Trump and the "baffling" way he's embraced Russia while criticizing his own intelligence apparatus during a session at the Aspen Security Forum Friday.

Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

That remark drew laughter and gasps from an audience of current and former government officials and the business executives who work collude with them. But underlying the humor was a tone of deep concern about the morale of people responsible for protecting the nation's security -- and dismay about where the country may be headed.

"In some respects, we're a nation in crisis right now," Brennan said.

Then, for the next hour, they counted the ways.

The veteran spies expressed surprise that Trump campaign officials including then-chairman Paul Manafort, son Donald Trump Jr., and son-in-law Jared Kushner would take a meeting in New York last year with a Russian lawyer who promised "dirt" on Hillary Clinton.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  Given the greatest threat to Russia is American frackers and that Trump has left them alone while Hillary threatened to shut'em down, Clapper Inc's own contributions to Making Russia Great Again seems to have hit a road block.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-22 17:06  

#6  SSCI/HPSCI sniveling puke staffers were a bad lot 25-30 years ago. Their bosses were reported to be worse. I never paid much attention to either committee after I retired, then Congressman Mike Rogers came along.

I suspect we'd better keep an eye on Pompeo. Guilt by association is still a relevant concept.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-22 15:09  

#5  TW, if you shop at Target and have occasion to walk past the 'mens' section, you may see pink safari shirts, flowered pants and pastel neck scarves. Please also remember the 'gender free' rest rooms. Target is in merchandising. They have identified with a voting block.
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-07-22 15:05  

#4  Pompeo was also at the Aspen conference.

That's one way to note who is in the Deep State camp, and what they're saying to whom.

I notice that Target is one of the sponsors, which seems an odd choice.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-22 12:26  

#3  Just plain envy. Putin spies on his citizens and laughs about it. Clappers crowd did it and he has to make excuses, embarrassing.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-07-22 08:28  

#2  Interesting, Pompeo was also at the Aspen conference.

CIA Director Mike Pompeo appeared at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado on Thursday where he was interviewed by New York Times columnist Bret Stephens.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-22 08:13  

#1  Asked whether the president is taking the Russia threat seriously, Clapper replied: "Well, it's hard to tell. Sometimes I think he's about making Russia great again."

John Brennan's 'Deep State' road tour and canned question from the audience.

Let there be no doubt. These people are well organized, well funded, and totally dedicated to the removal of our elected president. 'Regime Change'.... it's what they do.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-22 07:10  

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