{"id":62465,"date":"2017-01-07T07:05:23","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T11:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62465"},"modified":"2017-01-07T07:07:52","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T11:07:52","slug":"62465","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=62465","title":{"rendered":"Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper: World Class Liar and Inveterate Warmonger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sputnik, RT – Grave Concern of Infamous Liar James Clapper<\/h1>\n

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Thursday\u2019s Senate hearings to discuss alleged “Russian hacking” featured questions from yours truly at Sputnik News, and RT, but the intelligence community simply swung and missed on this one.<\/h2>\n

Sputnik International<\/p>\n

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During the highly-publicized hearing on \u2018Russian hacking\u2019 of\u00a0US elections, Senator Martin Heinrich (D-NM) asked James Clapper, the US Director of\u00a0National Intelligence, how much of\u00a0a concern for\u00a0him are Sputnik News and RT, which he referred to\u00a0as \u201cRussian propaganda.\u201d Clapper, who clearly felt uncomfortable after\u00a0dodging several questions and refusing to\u00a0present Senators with\u00a0evidence confirming Russia\u2019s participation in\u00a0alleged \u2018hacking,\u2019 was happy to\u00a0hear a softball question.<\/p>\n

\u201cI appreciate you raising this,\u201d he said. RT is \u201cvery, very active in\u00a0promoting a particular point of\u00a0view, disparaging our system, our alleged hypocrisy about\u00a0human rights, etc. etc., whatever crack they could find in\u00a0our tapestry, if you will, they would exploit it,\u201d Clapper said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo all of\u00a0these other modes, whether RT, use of\u00a0social media, fake news\u2026 They exercised all those capabilities in\u00a0addition to\u00a0the hacking,\u201d Clapper said during\u00a0the Thursday\u2019s hearing. The \u201ctotality\u201d of\u00a0the efforts, which by\u00a0looking at\u00a0capital investment is roughly one-third as\u00a0much as\u00a0the US spends, \u201cregardless of\u00a0its impact, \u201cwhich we can\u2019t gauge,\u201d Clapper said, is a matter of\u00a0grave concern.”<\/p>\n

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US to Release Unclassified Report on Alleged Russian Hacking Next Week – Clapper<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

In fact, we can gauge the impact of\u00a0state-funded media organizations, but\u00a0the picture painted of\u00a0US operations manifests absolute inefficiency. Preliminary research suggests that Clapper\u2019s fear-mongering tactics may just be a way to\u00a0protect the livelihood of\u00a0a bloated US bureaucracy, and Clapper, of\u00a0course, is among\u00a0the bureaucratic class. There are a whole 17 \u201cintelligence\u201d agencies with\u00a0undisclosed, classified budgets. Perhaps many of\u00a0them exist largely to\u00a0scratch each other\u2019s backs. Nevertheless, Washington\u2019s media communications arm, the Broadcasting Board of\u00a0Governors (BBG) is perhaps the Mount Everest of\u00a0bureaucratic ineffectiveness. With a massive three-quarters-of-a-billion dollar budget, or about $768 million, Helle Dale, a senior research fellow with\u00a0the Heritage Foundation, told Congress that BBG\u2019s site has essentially no impact on\u00a0Russians, as\u00a0the site ranks 3,828th in\u00a0the country.<\/p>\n

In 2013, former US Secretary of\u00a0State Hillary Clinton told<\/a> the House of\u00a0Representatives that the BBG is “defunct in\u00a0terms of\u00a0its capacity to\u00a0be able to\u00a0tell a message around\u00a0the world.”<\/p>\n

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