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Someone is Lying Here
Clapper tries to smooth the waters, but Trump’s response contradicts him
In an extraordinary statement on Wednesday night, James R. Clapper Jr., the director of national intelligence, said he had reached out to Mr. Trump, a man who compared the intelligence agencies to Nazis, to try to ease the president-elect’s concerns.
Mr. Clapper said he had expressed his “profound dismay” at leaks that have emerged since the intelligence chiefs briefed Mr. Trump last Friday on Russia’s efforts to help elect him president. And he disavowed any authorship of the dossier of unsubstantiated compromising material that Russia is reported to have on the incoming president:
“I emphasized that this document is not a U.S. intelligence community product and that I do not believe the leaks came from within the I.C. The I.C. 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. However, part of our obligation is to ensure that policy makers are provided with the fullest possible picture of any matters that might affect national security.”
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DNI Clapper Statement on Conversation with President-elect Trump: …
9:53 PM - 11 Jan 2017
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Mr. Trump returned the favor with his own Twitter post Thursday morning:
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James Clapper called me yesterday to denounce the false and fictitious report that was illegally circulated. Made up, phony facts.Too bad!
7:23 AM - 12 Jan 2017
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Someone is lying here. Mr. Clapper’s statement was explicit: The intelligence community “has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable” — a far cry from a “false and fictitious” denunciation.
Of course, Mr. Clapper will soon be heading to the exits, replaced by former Senator Dan Coats, assuming Senate confirmation. So whether peacemaking at the top will ease the ill will in the rank and file of the Trump White House and the intelligence agencies has yet to be determined.
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Someone is Lying Here
It is always great to think that the commander of the free world elect and most powerful nation on earth does not believe or even function well with his own intelligence community ! Really comforting. I will sleep better at night knowing this ! 
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