‘The best interests of the people’: Ex-US top spy Clapper justifies election interference

Fret not, people of the over 80 countries where the US has interfered in elections – it was done in your “best interests,” according to former head of US Intelligence James Clapper. Clapper, who famously lied about the NSA mass surveillance program before it was revealed by Edward Snowden, is back in the media spotlight, […]

JAMES CLAPPER: There could be ‘other shoes to drop’ in the Russia investigation involving Trump’s finances

Screenshot via CNN The former director of national intelligence James Clapper said he believes there could be “other shoes to drop” in the ongoing Russia investigation, and those forthcoming developments could involve President Donald Trump’s finances. Clapper made that assertion Friday night, hours after deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein announced new charges against Russian operatives […]

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper: Putin is handling Trump like a Russian ‘asset’

AP Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is handling President Donald Trump as an intelligence “asset.” Trump has frequently praised the Russian leader and expressed the desire to foster closer ties with Russia. The two also share similar views on a number of topics, like the […]

‘The Clapper’ Trailer: Ed Helms is an Infomercial Superstar

Ed Helms hasn’t quite been able to parlay his success on The Office onto the big screen, but perhaps his new film The Clapper will change that. The quirky romantic comedy has Helms playing a professional infomercial audience member who finds himself smitten with a gas station attendant played by Amanda Seyfried. Their romance is challenged, however, when […]

James Clapper: I didn’t know about Papadopoulos, Trump Tower meetings when I said there was no Trump-Russia collusion

Former DNI James Clapper said on Sunday that he did not know about two major events connecting the Trump campaign to Russia when he said in January that he had seen no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion. “A lot more has come out that raises, I think, circumstantial questions if nothing else,” Clapper told CNN’s Jake […]

JAMES CLAPPER: US intelligence assessment of Russia’s election interference ‘cast doubt on the legitimacy’ of Trump’s victory

AP The former director of national intelligence, James Clapper, said an assessment by the US intelligence community on Russia’s US election interference “cast doubt” on President Donald Trump’s legitimacy. Clapper’s comments follow an avalanche of recent news about Russia’s efforts to sway American voters in 2016. The Russia investigation has gained significant momentum in recent weeks, […]

‘This is an assault on us, our nation, our country’: James Clapper bristles at Trump casting doubt on Russian interference

CNN SAN FRANCISCO — Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper reaffirmed his belief that Russia interfered in the 2016 US presidential election, and that the Kremlin was planning to “prep the battlefield” for future elections here. “They’re going to stretch the envelope as far as they can to collect information,” Clapper said on CNN. […]

US ex-intel chief Clapper believes Russia-Trump claims, despite ‘no evidence to his knowledge’

Former US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has said on NBC’s ‘Meet the Press’ show that he is unaware of any evidence that the Russian government colluded with the Trump campaign during the US election, but still believes contacts existed. “We didn’t include evidence in our report that had any reflection of collusion between […]

JAMES CLAPPER: ‘There was no such wiretap activity mounted against’ Trump

REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque James Clapper, the director of national intelligence from 2010 until January 2017, said on Sunday that he was not aware of any wiretapping of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election or before he took office, as Trump has alleged. In early morning tweets on Saturday, Trump accused former President Barack Obama of […]