Clapper sure does have an emotional investment in this thing, doesn't he?
And, reading the article through, I see the title is a little misleading when it says Clapper thinks it doesn't matter who paid for it. Down at the end there's this FTA (my highlight):
“When we did our intelligence committee assessment, we were aware that there had been research done and that some Republican candidates, as a matter of fact, had contracted through Fusion GPS to obtain what it later became known as the dossier,” Clapper noted, adding that the project was then transferred to the DNC and Hillary for America.
“This is something that bears an audit trail by experts in finances that can track the auditing for this,” he suggested to CNN, because that would enable investigators “to see who was responsible for it.”
So, he does care who paid for it...as long it's Republicans to be fingered.
