Tapper and Clapper colluded.
Via BPR:
The report released Friday by the House Intelligence Committee regarding its investigation into alleged Russian collusion by the president’s election campaign appears to contain a stunning truth bomb about CNN host Jake Tapper: He may have participated in political espionage, according to one high-profile attorney.
In early 2017 he allowed then-National Intelligence Director James Clapper to leak information to him about the infamous Trump dossier and about a high-level government meeting held between then-President-elect Donald Trump and then-FBI Director James Comey.
“Clapper’s discussion with Tapper took place in early January 2017, around the time IC [intelligence community] leaders briefed President Obama and President-elect Trump, on” the dossier, the report specifically reads.
Afterward Tapper and three of his colleagues published a story containing the information Clapper had provided him, including info about the highly classified dossier.
All this matters because Clapper later lied to Congress about the dossier’s leak and then wound up becoming a contributor at CNN.
“When initially asked about leaks related to the ICA in July 2017, former ONI Clapper flatly denied ‘discussing[ing] the dossier [compiled by Steele] or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists,’” the report notes.
One month later, Clapper officially joined CNN as a contributor.
When combined, these various facts form the basis for a political espionage charge, according to Vegas attorney and political commentator Robert Barnes.
And since Tapper contributed to Clapper’s espionage by accepting his classified information and then sharing it with the masses, he’s equally guilty, according to Barnes.
HT: Huck Funn