Obama's intel chief says he knows of no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

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Source: McClatchy

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Clapper, who served as director for more than six years before he departed in January, also said he knew of no evidence that members of Trump’s campaign had colluded with Russia during the election campaign and that no suggestion that they had was made in a January report on the subject.

“We did not include anything in our report … that had any reflection of collusion between members of the Trump campaign and the Russians,” he said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “There was no evidence of that included in our report. We had no evidence of such collusion.”

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Clapper also denied that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court had authorized any wiretap. “I can deny it,” he said. But he said he couldn’t speak for “other authorized entities in the government or a state or local entity.”

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Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/white-house/article136600203.html

[SunSeeker]

1. Clapper was not in charge of the FBI. He was not privy to all their investigations.

Comey kept those Trump investigations close to his vest, and still does--he won't even tell the Congressional intelligence committees about them--even in a confidential closed meeting.


And then there's always the possibility that Clapper misspoke when he said he saw no evidence of collusion, kinda like when he "misspoke" in falsely denying NSA surveillance. https://www.google.com/amp/www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/james-clapper-says-he-misspoke-didnt-lie-about-nsa-surveillance/

[OKNancy]

2. Duplicate topic - Locking

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