THIS IS CNN: Hiring of Suspected Leaker Clapper Raises Ethical Questions

Guest Post by Sara Carter

CNN walked away with a prestigious journalism award at Saturday night’s White House Correspondent’s Association dinner for their role in making public a briefing by intelligence officials to then President-elect Donald Trump. CNN reported the briefing “included allegations that Russian operatives claim to have compromising personal and financial information about Mr. Trump.”  But the information briefed to the President was also leaked to the media by one of the same senior Obama administration officials who orchestrated the briefing and was hired by CNN months later as a paid analyst.

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Some are questioning now if this was ethical –a pay for play of sorts –as it raises serious questions about the role and responsibility that U.S. intelligence officials have when taking on paid positions as analysts for news organizations, while still retaining their high-level security clearances. It also raises similar questions about news organizations and their role of remaining objective and not paying their sources.

“If it would have been anyone else, he’d be prosecuted. Instead, they get a high paid position..”

Reporters Jake Tapper, Jim Sciutto, Evan Perez and Carl Bernstein won the Merriman Smith Award for their broadcast work and reporting on the dossier. But as first reported here it was former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was suspected by Congress of leaking the information to CNN, after he asked now fired FBI Director James Comey to give Trump the private briefing on Jan. 6, 2017.

By August 2017, Clapper was hired by CNN as an analyst but the network never disclosed that Clapper was a major source behind the leak of an unproven and salacious dossier when he joined the network. News agencies and reporters never disclose their sources, it would be unethical, but isn’t it also unethical to pay sources for information or give sources jobs as analysts for your news outlet after they’ve been illegally leaking classified information?

The dossier, which was compiled by former British spy Christopher Steele through cut-out Fusion GPS, was also being paid by the Hillary Clinton Campaign and the Democratic National Committee, as first reported by The Washington Post. And Clapper, Comey and former CIA Director John Brennan have been very vocal and partisan against the Trump administration, despite the fact that they are former senior intelligence officials of the United States. The United States has generally observed a tradition of non-partisanship among its intelligence officials who serve the people rather than a regime. In countries like Pakistan, Russia and in other places throughout the world highly partisan intelligence apparatus’ have attempted to destroy, overthrow or control their governments through subversion or coup d’etats.

John O. Brennan
John O. Brennan

Brennan, who is now a paid analyst for MSNBC, candidly expresses his anti-Trump opinions in public venues and continues to drop insults along with vague and ominous premonitions about the President, while refusing to show any evidence that the Russian’s possess blackmail material or that the Trump campaign was “colluding” with the Russians to win the presidency. The House Intelligence Committee has found no evidence of collusion after more than 15 months of investigation.

The FBI, CIA, DNI, among other intelligence agencies, are supposed to work to protect the  American people in a non-partisan matter, and current U.S. intelligence officials say the direction these former officials have taken is dangerous.

Former Assistant FBI Director James Kallstrom criticized Brennan and Clapper in an interview Sunday on Fox News Sunday Morning Features with Maria Bartiromo saying there is  “no doubt there is a cabal – to diminish his (Trump’s) ability to manage the country.”

Kallstrom said people in the United States should be concerned and react to this, “this is third world country stuff.”

Many current and former U.S. intelligence officials agree.

“Clapper was already in bed with CNN months before he was hired and while he was the DNI,” said a current U.S. intelligence official. “It’s unbelievable that a senior official would leak this type of disinformation to destroy an incoming president. If it would have been anyone else, he’d be prosecuted. Instead, they get a high paid position to the company they leaked to and retain their security clearance.  Banana Republic?”

Mary Beth Long, a defense analyst and the first woman to serve as an Assistant Secretary of Defense from 2007 to 2009, responded to my tweet yesterday questioning CNN’s hiring of Clapper but added a very compelling and interesting point.

She questioned if it was “appropriate” for two openly highly partisan intelligence officials, who now work for news networks, to continue to retain their security clearances.

At the time Comey briefed Trump on the contents of the dossier, no media organization would report on it, despite the fact that Steele had shared it with numerous outlets.

Comey said in his memo that Clapper had asked him to brief the President privately about the dossier’s contents, specifically the salacious part of the document accusing the President of being with prostitutes who urinated on a bed that former President Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama had slept in while staying in a Moscow hotel room.

“I said media like CNN had them and were looking for a news hook,” Comey said in his memo about what he told Trump in the briefing.

“I explained again why I had thought it important that he knows about it,” said Comey. “I also explained that one of the reasons we told him was that the media, CNN in particular, was telling us they were about to run with it.”

As for the White House Correspondent’s Association, they stated that CNN’s story made the “dossier” part of the American “lexicon” and therefore deserved the prestigious award.

These four journalists and a number of other CNN reporters broke the story that the intelligence community had briefed President Barack Obama and then-President-elect Donald Trump that Russia had compromising information about Trump. The CNN team later reported that then-FBI Director James Comey personally briefed Trump about the dossier. Thanks to this CNN investigation, “the dossier” is now part of the lexicon. The depth of reporting demonstrated in these remarkable and important pieces, and the constant updates as new information continued to be uncovered showed breaking news reporting at its best.

It certainly appears that briefing the unverified dossier to the President and then leaking it to the media was part of a plan to undermine an incoming President. It was a “news hook” that led to more than a years worth of stories that accused the President of alleged collusion with Russia and aided the Kremlin in what appears to be one of the greatest disinformation campaigns to sow chaos in the United States, according to numerous former and current U.S. intelligence officials.

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Dutchman
Dutchman

Where in the fuck did Obama get these people? Clapper looks like he escaped from the ‘Memory Center’ maybe before he was a Walmart Greeter. Comey, might have been a 5th grade teacher or used car salesman. And these people were running our country?

pyrrhus
pyrrhus

CNN is scum, Clapper is a criminal…

Peaceout
Peaceout

Let’s see if I got this straight CNN basically takes a unverified, created from thin air ‘Russian dossier’ and creates a news story from it using two top intelligence bosses to set the ‘hook’. CNN then spends the next 15 months having their talking heads rattling on 24/7/365 with daily new angles trying to convince the world it is all true when in fact it is all straight up bullshit. Then the crowning glory is they all receive awards and accommodation for a job well done. Huh, we are doomed….

Jake
Jake

We are not doomed. We are informed and forewarned.

Bob P
Bob P

And the hotly-contested award for doing the most to subvert democracy in 2017 goes to: CNN! Congratulations. Now, kindly proceed to Hades.

steve
steve

Still resting on the laurels of Watergate, Carl Bernstein is just a POS.

AC
AC

There is the unresolved question of why CNN is such a shitty, destructive, subversive organization.

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I guess we may never know.

22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories
22winmag - refugee from ZeroHedge who just couldn't take the explosion of doom porn and the avalanche of near-hourly Bitcoin stories

Too much foreign influence.

Although I wouldn’t kick a nice Jewish whore out of bed on a rainy Saturday night.

overthecliff
overthecliff

Well now we can count on unbiased reporting from CNN.

John
John

Jake Tapper, James Sciutto and Fareed Zakaria are members of the Rockefeller CFR, along with Time-Warner chairman Jeffrey Bewkes. Also Bill Clinton, Lynn Rothschild and George Soros. See lists in the CFR annual report, starting on pg 36:

https://www.cfr.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/AR2016_web.pdf

James Clapper is a member of the advisory board at the Atlantic Council, along with CFR members Madeline Albright, Stephen Schwarzman, Larry Summers, Robert Zoellick, etc. Atlantic Council president Frederick Kempe and several of the directors are also CFR members.

International Advisory Board

Robert (QSLV)
Robert (QSLV)

Maria Bartiromo is also a member of the CFR. Look it up.

From Fox News bio:
“Bartiromo is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York and the Board of Directors of The National Italian American Foundation (NIAF).”

Robert (QSLV)

Stucky

Just days before U.S. decision on the Iran nuke deal ….. NetanyaJoo claims proof of secret Iran plans for nuclear weapons …… over 30,000 pages!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm, ain’t that CONVENIENT???

Anyone who no longer believes that the USA fights Israel’s wars is a fucken MORAN!!!

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-30/iran-hid-secret-nuclear-weapons-program-israel-s-netanyahu-says

IndenturedServant

I think Yahu has BEEN trying to get Trump to fight Iran for him. That shit ain’t happenin’! So now, Israel has to do it themselves. Israel has been attacking Syria (really Iran) ever since the Great TBP Muh End Of The World meltdown a couple of weeks ago

What do think will happen when they examine the Uranium isotopes found in Syria and discover it came from the USA? The same Uranium that Mueller himself delivered to the Russians? Somebody’s gonna have some ‘splainin to do!

Pure speculation on my part but I think Trump & Pals are going to straighten out the ME then prove to the world that Israel has no nukes and never had any nukes and then encourage everyone, most especially Israel, to play nice.

Remember the Rothschild involvement in the Balfour Declaration? Israel is a Rothschild owned playground and Trump is going to give it back to the citizens of Israel after deposing the bloodline families.

Enjoy the show!

IndenturedServant

This WAS going to be the plan:

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IndenturedServant

They were so sure Felonia was going to win that Mueller (and Felonia) were never going to have to worry about the U1 scandal. WWIII would have covered it right up.

Bwahahahahahahaha!

Rdawg
Rdawg

Don’t reply to your own posts. That’s some Andrea Iravani shit right there.

IndenturedServant

Just fulfilling my role as the new village idiot.

IndenturedServant

My, my what tangled webs these people weave for themselves. They gin up a bunch of fake “evidence” that THEY themselves faked in order to convene a SC to investigate the fake “evidence” they created that will lead to the removal of Trump. (or so they thought….. Bwahahahahahaha!)

They are so scared that Trump will put an end to the SC that they go to Congress to create this:

“Bill To Protect Mueller Investigation Approved By Senate Judiciary Committee”
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/26/606017451/bill-to-protect-mueller-investigation-approved-by-senate-judiciary-committee

If they get this bill to Trump, he will sign it because Mueller is required to investigate ALL crimes his little investigation uncovers and the mouth breathing dems will think Trump just signed his own death warrant. Not only that but under the plea agreement signed by the now proven innocent General Flynn, Flynn is required to inform the SC of ALL crimes HE is aware of. That plea agreement even supersedes the Non-Disclosure Agreements Flynn signed and coming out of NSA/MI Intelligence you can bet your last dollar that Flynn is aware of a crime or two…….million.

Add all of that to this:
“Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree? Longtime Hillary Clinton Advisor Lays Out Why Mueller Probe Is “Corrupt” (VIDEO)”

Fruit Of The Poisonous Tree? Longtime Hillary Clinton Advisor Lays Out Why Mueller Probe Is “Corrupt” (VIDEO)

PLUS the growing realization that the only crimes being uncovered by Mueller were committed by much beloved democrats and deep state crony assholes that the dems love in an attempted treasonous coup to remove Trump and……. well…….it don’t get much more delicious than that!

By the time Mueller starts arresting people Trump will have signed the Mueller protection bill then not even all the corrupt dems and deep staters in the world will be able to stop that wrecking ball even if they beg Trump to end it.

My nigga Trump is toying with these dumb fucks letting them ALL take just as much fucking rope as they desire to hang themselves.

I sincerely wish more of you could see what is going on just under the surface and behind the scenes, just barely hidden from view. If we had any real journalists in this country, Q and Trump could never pull off this plan but a complicit media is a blind media. He’s allowing the bad actors to design, build and even fund the very steam roller that will be used to flatten them. It’s a thing of beauty!

Muy Delicioso!
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Uncola

In an MSNBC interview on January 3rd 2017, Chucky Schumer said this:

Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday to get back at you. So, even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he is being really dumb to do this.

When asked what the intelligence agencies could do to Trump, Chucky replied:

I don’t know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them.

Then, on January 6th, Comey briefs Trump, at Clapper’s request, on the dossier that the Hillary Clinton campaign colluded with the Russians to acquire.

Interesting timeline, no?

If Chucky, the devil’s Butler, knew U.S. intelligence officials were upset- it makes one wonder what else he knew and when.

Not Sure

I wanted to draw attention to the journalist who wrote this story, Sarah Carter (AKA Wonder Woman). Her articles are spot on, well researched and a reporter who harkens back to an age where reporters actually held politicians accountable; instead of kissing their butts at the latest DC party for exclusives.
Carter and Atkinson should start their own news network.

Taras 77
Taras 77

Very much agree on Carter-she nails it over and over and over.
Know of Atkinson but not familiar with her work.

nkit
nkit

Are you all referring to Sharyl Attkisson?

Not Sure

Yes, was falling asleep and no time to research the name, thanks for providing the update!

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