Clapper on 2016 Election Scandal: We Did 'What We Were Told To Do by The President,' Obama

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Clapper on 2016 Election Scandal: We Did 'What We Were Told To Do by The President,' Obama
 

As the U.S. attorney general and a federal prosecutor in Connecticut investigate the origins of the Russia-collusion scandal and federal spying on the Trump presidential campaign in 2016, former Obama administration National Intelligence Director James Clapper has disclosed that he was concerned about the Russians at the time, and that he does not think it is fair to now be investigated for having done "what we were told to do by the president."

On the Oct. 7 edition of CNN Newsroom, host Jim Sciutto asked Clapper, "As you know, the president has members of this government, you have the Attorney General [William Barr] traveling the world now meeting with U.S. intelligence partners trying to find out, in his view, whether they participated in some sort of Obama administration-led effort to undermine President Trump in the last election here. You also know that John Durham who is a prosecutor here, a senior Justice Department official, he’s pursuing his own investigations on the origins of that probe.

 
Source URL: https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/clapper-2016-election-scandal-we-did-what-we-were-told-do-president-obama

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From the article:
"The message I’m getting from all this is apparently what we were supposed to have done was to ignore the Russian interference, ignore the Russian meddling and the threat that it poses to us, and oh, by the way, blown off what the then commander-in-chief, President Obama, told us to do, which was to assemble all the reporting that we could, that we had available to us -- and put it in one report that the president could pass on to the Congress and to the next administration. And while we’re at it, declassify as much as we possibly could to make it public, and that’s what we did."

IIRC the Obama administration did ignore the Russian interference. But lying liars got to lie.