I think you compare the two that Watergate pales, really in my view, and compared to what we're confronting now.
James Clapper: “I think you compare the two that Watergate pales, really in my view, and compared to what we're confronting now.”
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Clapper compares the current political situation to Watergate, suggesting it is more serious.
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I think he's trying to erase any vestiges of as much as he can of culpability that people that were caught up in this investigation.
It's inconceivable to me that the Russian intelligence services aren't aware of this, and that Putin has certainly at least acquiesced if not directed -- directing it.
I think President Biden made exactly the right judgment, and there is no question that, Avril Haines, the Director of National Intelligence will certainly comply with that instruction.
It shows once again not that we need proof of it, where the President's head really is and all this. And it's not on national security, not on the pandemic, not on the massive Russian cyber espionage.





