Sean Adl-Tabatabai – Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has admitted that Obama ordered the FBI to spy on his political opponent during the 2016 presidential election.

Speaking with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Monday, Clapper appeared to put the blame on Barack Obama for spying on Trump campaign officials.

Red Right Videos reports:

Anderson Cooper, CNN: The 2017 assessment that the President [Trump] says he now agrees with, that was done while you and then CIA Director John Brennan were still in office. So, how can we reconcile the President attacking you, but apparently after a very long time finally, allegedly saying — or saying he allegedly agrees with the product of the intelligence community that you, yourself oversaw?

James Clapper: Yes, well, this is — yes, as we’ve come to know the President, he is not a stalwart for consistency or coherence. So it’s very hard to explain that. One point I’d like to make, Anderson, that I don’t think has come up very much before, and I’m alluding now to the President’s criticism of President Obama for all that he did or didn’t do before he left office with respect to the Russian meddling. If it weren’t for President Obama, we might not have done the intelligence community assessment that we did that set off a whole sequence of events which are still unfolding today, notably, special counsel Mueller’s investigation.

President Obama is responsible for that, and it was he who tasked us to do that intelligence community assessment in the first place. I think it’s an important point when it comes to critiquing President Obama.

SF Source News Punch Apr 2019