Thread by @themarketswork

1) James Clapper appears to have what might best be described as a casual relationship with the truth.
themarketswork.com/2018/04/27/cla…

2) Clapper - along w/Brennan - was the architect of the Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) – Assessing Russian Activities and Intentions in Recent U.S. Elections.
dni.gov/files/document…

3) The DNI’s Intelligence Community Assessment was constructed by three men:

Former DNI James Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan and to a lesser extent, former FBI Director James Comey (Strzok also there w/assist).

The ICA was used to push the Russian Narrative.

4) Clapper denied using the Steele Dossier in the ICA during Congressional testimony:

"We did not include it in the body of our intelligence community assessment. We couldn't corroborate the sourcing, particularly the second and third-order sources."
washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…

5) Although carefully worded, Clapper's testimony was not correct.

Clapper on CNN: Some of the substantive content of the dossier we were able to corroborate in our Intelligence Community assessment from other sources in which we had very high confidence.
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/17…

6) In a 3-5-18 letter to Nunes, Adm. Rogers noted:

A two-page summary of the dossier was added as an appendix to the ICA draft.

Consideration of that appendix was part of the overall ICA review/approval process.

realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2018/…

7) The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) is IC gibberish:
themarketswork.com/2018/05/15/the…

8) The Intelligence Community Assessment (ICA) contained one significant caveat:

"CIA and FBI have high confidence in this judgment; NSA has only moderate confidence."

9) Clapper also denied leaking to the press during Congressional testimony:
washingtonpost.com/news/post-poli…

10) GRASSLEY: Have you ever been an anonymous source in a news report about matters relating to Mr. Trump, his associates or Russia's attempt to meddle in the election?

CLAPPER: No

11) GRASSLEY: Did you ever authorize someone else at your organization to be an anonymous source in a news report about Mr. Trump or his associates?

CLAPPER: No.

12) On April 27, 2018, the House Intelligence Committee released a declassified version of their complete report on Russian election interference – Report on Russian Active Measures.

The report included a number of Findings.
intelligence.house.gov/news/documents…

13) Finding #16:

The Intelligence Community Assessment judgments on Putin’s strategic intentions did not employ proper analytic tradecraft.

14) Finding #44:

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, now a CNN national security analyst, provided inconsistent testimony to the Committee about his contacts with the media, including CNN.

15) Finding #42:

The leaks prior to the classified Intelligence Community Assessment’s publication, particularly leaks occurring after the U.S. presidential election, correlate to SPECIFIC LANGUAGE found in the Intelligence Community Assessment.

16) #40: Leaks of classified information regarding Russian intentions to sow discord in the presidential election began PRIOR to election

#41: Leaks of classified information alleging Russian intentions to help elect candidate Trump increased dramatically AFTER the election day

17) The ICA was released internally on January 5, 2017.

On this same day, Obama held a secret White House meeting to discuss the dossier with Susan Rice and FBI Director Comey.

Rice would later send herself an email documenting the meeting.
themarketswork.com/2018/02/13/gra…

18) A declassified version of the Intelligence Community Assessment was released on January 6, 2017.

The same day Brennan, Clapper and Comey attached a written summary of the dossier to the classified briefing they gave Obama.

19) Later the same day (January 6), Comey met with President Trump to inform him of the Dossier.

This meeting took place just hours after Comey, Brennan and Clapper formally briefed Obama on both the ICA and the Steele Dossier.

20) From Comey’s Memos:

There was something that Clapper wanted me to speak to the PE [President-Elect] about alone or in a very small group.

I then executed the session exactly as I had planned.

I wanted to meet with him to tell him more about what is in the reports.

21) Comey would only inform President Trump of the “salacious” details - per Clapper's instructions.

“Because that was the part that the leaders of the intelligence community agreed he needed to be told about.”
themarketswork.com/2018/04/20/com…

22) Shortly after Comey’s meeting with Trump the Trump/Comey meeting & the existence of the Dossier were leaked to CNN.

Comey: CNN had [the Dossier] and were looking for a news hook. I said it was important that we not give them the excuse to write that the FBI has the material.

23) Media had widely dismissed the Dossier as unsubstantiated and unreportable.

It was only after learning that Comey briefed Trump that CNN reported on the Dossier.

DNI Clapper was the individual who leaked information of Comey’s meeting with President Trump to CNN.

24) From the House Intel Report:

When questioned by the Committee, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper admitted that he confirmed the existence of the dossier to the media.
themarketswork.com/2018/04/27/cla…

25) More: When initially asked about leaks, Clapper flatly denied discussing the dossier...with journalists. 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

26) More: Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC leaders briefed 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.

27) On January 10, 2017, CNN published an article by Tapper and others, which claimed that “classified documents presented last week to Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations about Mr. Trump" that were “presented in a two-page synopsis."
cnn.com/2017/01/10/pol…

28) Those claims were sourced to “multiple U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings.”

The next day, Clapper issued a statement describing a call with President-elect Trump. dni.gov/index.php/news…

29) Clapper's January 11, 2017 Statement/Lie:

I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press.

I emphasized that [the Dossier] is not a U.S. Intel product and that I do not believe the leaks came from within the Intel Community.

30) Clapper:

The IC has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions.

I assured him that the IC stands ready to serve his Administration and the American people.

31) Clapper's entire January 11, 2017 Statement was a lie.

All of it.

Note how Clapper’s statement reaffirmed the Dossier and specified that Clapper had now discussed the Dossier with President-Elect Trump.

32) Clapper twice denied knowing of the existence of any FISA Warrant on Carter Page.

On March 5, 2017 during a Meet the Press Interview:

33) On September 24, 2017 Clapper again denied knowledge of any FISA Warrant.

A bit less emphatically this time:

34) However, on January 31, 2018, Clapper began to tell a differing tale:

35) Clapper:

As I understand it, this was simply an extension of uh, the original, uh, FISA request.

Meaning that, or implying, that apparently, there was information that was considered, uh, ‘valuable’, that was being obtained, via the initial FISA request.

36) Clapper:

FISAs have finite dates. In other words they have deadlines; they aren’t indefinite.

So when the time was up for the initial FISA request then it was time to get an extension.

On its face, I don’t know that the dossier played very much, in this at all.

37) Ask yourself what the chances are that Clapper had no knowledge of that Carter Page FISA.

And if Clapper really didn't know what does that say of Clapper & the FBI.

After all, Clapper was the Director of National Intelligence.

38) One last thing.

I've written on FISA abuses uncovered by NSA Dir Rogers.

And how DOJ’s NSD Head John Carlin intentionally hid these abuses from the FISA Court.

It’s highly improbable that Clapper didn't know about the FISA Abuses as well.
themarketswork.com/2018/05/21/joh…

39) The NSD and Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) are jointly required to routinely review all Intelligence Agency U.S. person queries of content to ensure the Section 702 queries satisfy the legal standard.

40) On January 7, 2016, the NSA Inspector General, George Ellard, released a report on NSA Controls & FISA compliance.

The report detailed a number of abuses & problems.

Neither the NSD or DNI disclosed this report to the FISA Court.
dni.gov/files/document…

41) The NSD and ODNI perform the ongoing reviews of Intelligence Agency Section 702 use.

It is simply not possible they were unaware of the NSA Inspector General’s Report.

James Clapper had to know of this Report.

He also knew the FISA Court did not.

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