Fresh off of the release of a new report showing no evidence that al-Qaeda or other Islamist groups changed their tactics in any meaningful way after the Edward Snowden NSA leaks, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is once again harping on about the “threats” Snowden is to blame for.
Clapper, best known for bragging about lying to Congress in testimony last year, claims Snowden created a “perfect storm” of degraded spying capabilities, and that the US “is facing the most diverse set of threats I’ve seen in my 50 years in the intelligence business.”
Clapper has been keen to fuel hysteria about the leaks themselves, while continuing to insist that the misdeeds Snowden leaked weren’t true to begin with, and that the NSA would never think of violating Americans’ privacy.
The timing of Clapper’s latest comments is particularly bizarre, since once again the reports coming out suggest the “threats” claims were entirely illusory, and leaks continue to emerge showing the NSA was indeed collecting data on Americans.
All they know to do is to keep lying and lying.
People like Clapper ARE the threat to the United States!!!!! This man should be in Levenworth.
Precisely. That is what Snowden is exposing and why they want it stopped.
Cicero – "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Yes indeed…..people like Clapper rots the soul of a nation!
All is hopeless — Ear your heart out
The job of Clapper is to burn up the emotional capital of those in society who have grave apprehension about all the corruption in government. For the bigger the lie and the more obvious the lie, the greater is the damage to our equilibrium and the higher is our frustration, exasperation and gutted out feeling of hopelessness.
Jimmy Clapper, full of baloney as always. This guy needs an enema, pronto!
Clapper–YOU LIE!