Anomanon on Nostr: I like Lue and believe the role that he is playing in the current disclosure cycle is ...
I like Lue and believe the role that he is playing in the current disclosure cycle is admirable. I’m not a hater. But we shouldn’t forget that he is a trained intelligence officer, and sometimes he says things that bother me. I am currently listening to the audio version of his book and I am really enjoying it. But one point he lavishes praise on his old boss James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence. He has only great things to say about him and his outstanding character. If he helped supported Lue and AATIP, that’s great but…
If you recall your recent American history you might be a little perplexed. Isn’t this the same guy that perjured himself in front of congress by claiming the NSA doesn’t collect data on Americans? Why yes, yes it is the same man. Then when proof of illegal bulk data collection of Americans came out in the Snowden leaks he claimed he misspoke and had “forgotten” about that?
https://youtu.be/eptZuXkUGmI
Yikes.
Some of his other greatest hits from wikipedia:
“In 2003, Clapper, then head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, attempted to explain the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq by asserting that the weapons materials were "unquestionably" shipped out of Iraq to Syria and other countries just before the American invasion, a "personal assessment" that Clapper's own agency head at the time, David Burpee, "could not provide further evidence to support."
“In May 2017, Clapper was criticized by some media outlets for a xenophobic remark in an interview with Chuck Todd from Meet the Press.[121] He told NBC's Meet the Press that Russians are "almost genetically driven" to act deviously.”
“In October 2020, Clapper was part of a group of 51 former intelligence officials that signed a letter that stated the Biden laptop story “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" Portions of the laptop's contents have since been verified as authentic, and no such Russian linkage was found.”
He went on to become a CNN talking head.
So if Lue whole-heartedly vouches for the guy, it does at least make me question Lue’s judgement of character, and makes me wonder what, perhaps, Lue isn’t being fully honest about.
If you recall your recent American history you might be a little perplexed. Isn’t this the same guy that perjured himself in front of congress by claiming the NSA doesn’t collect data on Americans? Why yes, yes it is the same man. Then when proof of illegal bulk data collection of Americans came out in the Snowden leaks he claimed he misspoke and had “forgotten” about that?
https://youtu.be/eptZuXkUGmI
Yikes.
Some of his other greatest hits from wikipedia:
“In 2003, Clapper, then head of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, attempted to explain the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq by asserting that the weapons materials were "unquestionably" shipped out of Iraq to Syria and other countries just before the American invasion, a "personal assessment" that Clapper's own agency head at the time, David Burpee, "could not provide further evidence to support."
“In May 2017, Clapper was criticized by some media outlets for a xenophobic remark in an interview with Chuck Todd from Meet the Press.[121] He told NBC's Meet the Press that Russians are "almost genetically driven" to act deviously.”
“In October 2020, Clapper was part of a group of 51 former intelligence officials that signed a letter that stated the Biden laptop story “has the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation" Portions of the laptop's contents have since been verified as authentic, and no such Russian linkage was found.”
He went on to become a CNN talking head.
So if Lue whole-heartedly vouches for the guy, it does at least make me question Lue’s judgement of character, and makes me wonder what, perhaps, Lue isn’t being fully honest about.