James Clapper actually said...

The President as we've seen over the last couple of years, those have a -- what I'll call -- what I'll characterize as an elastic evidentiary bar.

Clapper comments on Trump's approach to evidence and intelligence.

11/15/2018

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It's - it's kind of bad that he now gets the reception he's getting.

It was a high confidence assessment that the preference here was, one, to damage Hillary Clinton, and two, to advantage Donald Trump.

To have a prosecuting attorney go investigate the analytic judgments and findings of a bunch line analysts... sends a very chilling message ...

This simply encourages them to do something they're going to do anyway.