Trump's alleged Russia links will dwarf Watergate scandal, says James Clapper

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Donald Trump's alleged Russia links will dwarf Watergate scandal, says James Clapper
By Stephen Dziedzic
Updated about 2 hours ago

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The man privy to America's darkest intelligence secrets for the past six years has predicted Russian links to the Trump administration will dwarf the 1970s Watergate scandal which sunk the Nixon presidency.

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Former US intelligence chief James Clapper says Watergate scandal nothing compared to Trump's Russia links
Says Russian meddling in US election constitutes an 'assault' on the United States.

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James Clapper was until January the US director of national intelligence — the Obama administration's eyes and ears on America's enormous surveillance community, including the CIA, NSA and elements of the FBI.

In that role he watched Russian meddling in the months leading up to the presidential election last November, and has concluded it made a concerted and determined attempt to derail Mr Trump's opponent, Hillary Clinton.

"I lived through Watergate. I was on active duty then in the Air Force, I was a young officer. It was a scary time," Mr Clapper told the National Press Club in Canberra.

"I have to say though, I think if you compare the two that Watergate pales, really, in my view, compared to what we're confronting now."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-07/donald-trump-russia-links-will-dwarf-watergate-scandal/8597874

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1. Especially because many in the Republican Party were in on it

There is no other reasonable explanation as to why the Reoublican Party is so silent and seemingly unconcerned that a foreign power hacked our election and coordinated with a presidential campaign.