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pnwmom

(108,978 posts) Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:19 PM Mar 2017

Comey never briefed Clapper. [View all]

Let the implications of that sink in.

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It's amazing that for all its pundits @CNN couldn't get _one_ person on-air who caught what social media did: _Comey never briefed Clapper_.

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Comey never briefed Clapper. [View all] pnwmom Mar 2017 OP

Wow, thanks for pointing that out. SunSeeker Mar 2017 #1

Can somebody help me here? MelissaB Mar 2017 #2

Well, the NSA is forbidden by law from spying on American citizens. Maybe Clapper was limited, too? randome Mar 2017 #3

That would make sense. MelissaB Mar 2017 #5

Comey says he didn't brief anyone outside of the FBI, or in the quarterly reports, pnwmom Mar 2017 #6

That's right! MelissaB Mar 2017 #8

Still, it is telling that he didn't even trust other agency heads on this. pnwmom Mar 2017 #9

Comey is a complete jerk and influenced our elections as much as Putin by not reporting that there Demsrule86 Mar 2017 #4

And Clappers words were carefully parsed, not blanket statements at all. L. Coyote Mar 2017 #7

Wow. Justice Mar 2017 #10

"Why is that?".. denbot Mar 2017 #11

The Washington DC FBI is a separate unit and doesn't work closely with the NY FBI that Giuliani pnwmom Mar 2017 #12