Clapper Sings - Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper Tells CNN Obama Ordered the Trump-Russia Spying Operation (VIDEO)
After two years of investigation Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his team of angry Democrats did not find any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. Mueller also did not find any evidence of conspiracy after President Trump fired crooked leaker FBI Director James Comey.
Clapper defended the Obama administrationās spying on their political opposition during the election.
And then Clapper appeared to put blame on Barack Obama for spying on his opponent during the 2016 presidential election.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN HOST: The 2017 assessment that the President says he now agrees with, that was done while you and then NCI Director John Brennan were still in office. So, how can we reconcile the President attacking you, but apparently after a very long time finally, allegedly saying ā or saying he allegedly agrees with the product of the intelligence community that you, yourself oversaw?
JAMES CLAPPER: Yes, well, this is ā yes, as weāve come to know the President, he is not a stalwart for a consistency or coherence. So itās very hard to explain that. One point Iād like to make, Anderson, that I donāt think has come up very much before, and Iām alluding now to the Presidentās criticism of President Obama for all that he did or didnāt do before he left office with respect to the Russian meddling.
If it werenāt for President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set off a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today, notably, special counsel Muellerās investigation.
President Obama is responsible for that, and it was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place. I think itās an important point when it comes to critiquing President Obama.