“Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the ‘dossier with CNN journalist Jake Tapper,’ and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,” the report continued. “Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on ‘the Christopher Steele information,’ a two-page summary of which was ‘enclosed in’ the highly-classified version of the ICA,” or intelligence community assessment.
The briefing of Trump by U.S. intelligence chiefs was held on January 6. CNN published its story on the briefing , based on anonymous leaks from “two national security officials,” on January 10. BuzzFeed published the full dossier , which was jointly funded by the Hillary Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee , minutes after the CNN story was published.
The revelation that Clapper was responsible for leaking details of both the dossier and briefings to two presidents on the matter is significant, because former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) director James Comey wrote in one of four memos that he leaked that the briefing of Trump on salacious and unverified allegations from the dossier was necessary because “CNN had them and were looking for a news hook.”
The congressional report on Russian interference noted that it was this very briefing of Trump that multiple media organizations used as an excuse to publish the unverified dossier.
“The Committee assesses that leaks to CNN about the dossier were especially significant, since CNN’s report ‘ that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump’ was the proximate cause of BuzzFeed News’ decision to publish the dossier for the first time just a few hours later,” the report stated. “Until that point, the dossier had been ‘circulating among elected official, intelligence agents, and journalists,’ but remained unpublished. As the accompanying article explained, ‘[n]ow BuzzFeed News is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of government.”
As The Federalist ‘s Mollie Hemingway noted after Comey’s memos were finally made available to the public, the fired FBI director’s account of the briefing of Trump suggested that the entire briefing was a setup from the beginning , and that it was scheduled and held just so it could be leaked to journalists who wanted an excuse to publish a dossier nobody had verified.
In their coordinated response to the full intelligence committee’s findings, committee Democrats defended Clapper, claiming that he broke no laws while acknowledging that he did leak information about the dossier to CNN’s Jake Tapper.
“Evaluated in context, Clapper denied leaking classified information, while acknowledging that, as DNI, he engaged in legitimate discussion of unclassified, non-intelligence information with Tapper,” they concluded .
Clapper, who previously lied to Congress about whether the U.S. government was electronically spying on millions of Americans, was subsequently hired by CNN just months after his leak. Although he eventually apologized to Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) for lying to Congress about government mass surveillance of American citizens, he subsequently told MSNBC that the question to which he responded–“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”–was a gotcha question similar to, “When did you stop beating your wife?”
"A newly declassified report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections reveals that former intelligence chief James Clapper lied to Congress about information he shared with CNN on the infamous Steele dossier."
All three Intell leaders above represent the deep state resistance to Donald Trump. Some may recall one of the first political uses of the Phrase "the resistance"...."The Prairie Fire"
The Clapper-Tapper conspiracy connection.....I can see the headlines now.
Whatever. What items in The Steele Dossier have been proven false thus far?
What items have been verified and proven to be true?
that is the truth--
Sorry, but it is up to the accuser to prove something to be true, not the accused that allegations are false.
Maybe you failed that part in Civics 101.
No, I did not fail Civics 101.
Just a lot of Russians around the Trump Syndicate, that's all.
Again, unproven, except in your head. Again, since when does the accused have to prove their inniocence.....we don't live under Napoleanic Code.
I thought it was supposed to work the other way with claims actually being verified
When the investigation is complete, the claims will either be verified or exonerated. Not much more to it. If there is nothing there then there is nothing there. You know. The 'innocent until proven guilty thing' and all the rest?
, the fired FBI director’s account of the briefing of Trump suggested that the entire briefing was a setup from the beginning , and that it was scheduled and held just so it could be leaked to journalists who wanted an excuse to publish a dossier nobody had verified.
Obama's National Security Team at work, ,liars more concerned with smearing domestic political "enemies" than dealing with Putin.
Clapper's resume:
Yep, that's exactly what happened. And somehow these nitwits came up with the notion that there is enough "there", there, to start a far ranging investigation??
Oh, look, yet another attempt to spin the Mueller investigation by pushing more Trump lies and obfuscation. By quoting the Nunes committee? Give us all a freaking break. That committee has lost all credibility and anything put out by them is not even worth the paper its printed on.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2018/03/13/republican-on-house-intelligence-panel-weve-lost-all-credibility-on-russia-probe/?utm_term=.f8553773df6b
The Steele 'dossier' was never a 'government' document and never classified. So what exactly is Clapper accused of 'leaking'?
If Clapper lied to Congress he would have been indicted.