SCIUTTO: As you know, the
president now has sitting members of this
government. You have the attorney general
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 former
prosecutor, senior Justice Department official,
he’s pursuing his own investigation on the
origins of that probe. Are you concerned that
Barr’s or Durham’s investigation will find
wrongdoing and seek to punish former
intelligence officials?
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Are You Tired Of
The Lies And
Non-Stop Propaganda?
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CLAPPER: Well, I don’t know,
I don’t think there was any wrongdoing. I think
at the time all of us were trying to navigate a
very, very difficult, politically fraught,
highly-charged situation. I know for my part, my
main concern was, were the Russians, and the
threat posed by the Russians to our very
political fabric. And 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, blowing 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. And it’s kind
of disconcerting now to be investigated for
having done our duty and done what we were told
to do by the president.
