[Politico] America’s former top spymaster has a few things he’d like to clear up about the Russia investigation.
James Clapper, a crusty ex-cargo pilot who rose through the Air Force ranks and retired as director of national intelligence in January, only to emerge publicly as one of President Donald Trump’s foremost critics, wants you to know that no matter how much Trump rants about the "Russia hoax," the 2016 hacking was not only real and aimed at electing Trump but constituted a major victory for a dangerous foreign adversary. "The Russians," he said, have "succeeded beyond their wildest expectations."
Far from being the "witch hunt" Trump has repeatedly called it, the investigation of whether Trump’s team colluded with Russia constitutes a "cloud not only over the president, but the office of the presidency, the administration, the government and the country" until it is resolved, Clapper told me in an extensive new interview for The Global Politico, our weekly podcast on world affairs.
And yes, Clapper is sticking with his view that the allegations are "worse than Watergate," given that the Russiagate investigation involves "a foreign adversary actively and aggressively and directly engaging in our political processes to interfere with them and to undermine our system, whereas in Watergate you were dealing with a two-bit petty burglary, domestic only."
With special prosecutor Robert Mueller now reported to have secured the first indictment in the Russiagate probe, Clapper commented at length in our interview on the investigation whose initial stages he observed up close as President Obama’s top intelligence official, telling me that new revelations in recent months have only deepened his concern about the Russian intervention‐beyond what even Obama’s most senior officials knew before last year’s election.
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The Deep State's spokesman hates Trump and is hyping the foreign boogeyman threat. Whatta surprise.
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"cloud not only over the president, but the office of the presidency, the administration, the government and the country" until it is resolved, Clapper told me
A "cloud" which is only intensified by Clapper's continued bloviating. The "cloud" is not simply an observation, it is a goal of the 'deep state.'
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[Hot Air] How many readers, I wonder, are familiar with this history of atrocity and denial, except in a vague way? How many know the name of Lazar Kaganovich, one of Stalin’s principal henchmen in the famine? What about other chapters large and small in the history of Communist horror, from the deportation of the Crimean Tatars to the depredations of Peru’s Shining Path to the Brezhnev-era psychiatric wards that were used to torture and imprison political dissidents? Soetoro takes Mooch, kids, and free-rent granny to Robben Island prison courtyard.
Why is it that people who know all about the infamous prison on Robben Island in South Africa have never heard of the prison on Cuba’s Isle of Pines? Why is Marxism still taken seriously on college campuses and in the progressive press? Do the same people who rightly demand the removal of Confederate statues ever feel even a shiver of inner revulsion at hipsters in Lenin or Mao T-shirts?
These aren’t original questions. But they’re worth asking because so many of today’s progressives remain in a permanent and dangerous state of semi-denial about the legacy of Communism a century after its birth in Russia.
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Procopius2k, agree 100%. If not in Russia at least among the commies of the left. The entire ideology should have been stamped out and villified as loser anti-Semitic genocidal nutbags.
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