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Intel Director’s Office Tries to Backpedal on Clapper’s Shocking Statement

Feb. 10, 2011 6:31pm Jonathon M. Seidl

Just hours after National Intelligence Director James Clapper made the shocking statement this morning that the Muslim Brotherhood is a “secular” organization, his office tried frantically to “clarify” his remarks.

In a statement to ABC News, Jamie Smith, director of the office of public affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, said Clapper was commenting on the political system in Egypt rather than the make up of the group itself:

To clarify Director Clapper’s point — in Egypt the Muslim Brotherhood makes efforts to work through a political system that has been, under Mubarak’s rule, one that is largely secular in its orientation — he is well aware that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a secular organization.

But that’s now what he said, and the damage may already be done. Soon after Clapper made the statements, numerous news outlets picked up on the incredible remarks, made at a House Intelligence Committee hearing and contradicted by FBI Director Robert Mueller.

The Blaze even featured a video of a Muslim Brotherhood leader commenting, just hours before Clapper testified, on bringing Egypt under Sharia law.

Fox’s Megyn Kelly reacted live on air, reminding her audience that Clapper is the same guy who was embarrassed when ABC’s Diane Sawyer stumped him about terrorists being arrested in London:

The ever-vigilant ABC reporter Jake Tapper wrote on his blog, “The Muslim Brotherhood is quite obviously not a secular organization,” and went on to quote a Council on Foreign Relations background statement on the Muslim Brotherhood that said:

[L]ike other mass social movements, Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood is hardly a monolith; it comprises hardliners, reformers, and centrists, notes terrorism expert Lydia Khalil. And some hardline leaders have voiced support for al-Qaeda or use of violent jihad. For instance, as recently as 2006, Khalil points out, a member of Brotherhood elected to parliament, Ragib Hilal Hamida, voiced support for terrorism in the face of Western occupation. Instances like these raise questions over the group’s commitment to nonviolence.

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scout n ambush
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pm
FOIA request and find out who prepared his report is this Intel from CAIRN or the NASA muslim outreach program.

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Slap Shot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pm
Complete and utter BULLSH**. This man James Clapper is an enemy of the United States along with his boss. If we listen and follow these idiots we’re all DEAD. Period.

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- Mil Mom
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:47pm
  Makes you wonder if there’s a reciprococity deal going on, Egypt to the MB’s and USA to the Prog’s, wonder how shocked the latter would be when; if the former took Egypt, then their Caliphate began spreading until it included all the West?
  
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trolltrainer
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pm
where are all the ******* trolls?

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- 338lapua
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:18pm
  Taking their meds…..cuz this one is bad!!
  
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- Therightsofbilly
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:02am
  They are all trying to get Clappers head out of his *ss
  
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- beckisnutsisnuts
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:23pm
  LMAO ******* trolls LOL
  
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Don
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pm
Behold the genius of the one called Clapper!

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Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pm
Do any one of you also feel like we are living in an episode of the Twilight Zone these days???

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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 9:07pm
  Everytime I look out the plane window, I see a monster tearing apart the wires.
  
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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:38pm
  Definitely living in a time warp! Scary one! Just told my husband that the other day!
  
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ctate970
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:44pm
Remember Bush’s Brownie comment after Katrina? Will we see the same results here?

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Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pm
These people won’t be happy until Sharia is the law of our land!!! OVER MY DEAD BODY!!! AND THERE ARE MANY LIKE ME WHO WILL DEFEND THIS COUNTRY FROM ALL ENEMIES–FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC.

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- Conservative redneck
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pm
  I’m with ya Hill Country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- randy
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:57pm
  Amen Brother!
  
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- Hill Country Patriot
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:15pm
  I will kill ANYONE (and swiftly) that tries for one minute to make my wife, daughter, sisters, mother, etc. (and that goes for any of my granddaughters, great-granddaughters…) wear a burka, hijab, and cow-tow to any Muslim man or perverted false prophet or false god.
  
  SOME THINGS ARE WORTH KILLING AND DYING FOR… AND THIS TOPS THE LIST.
  
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- Gita
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:38pm
  Amen to that!
  
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Thighmaster
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pm
So was he acting stupidly then or is he acting stupidly now? These people are protecting us????

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alcarfl
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pm
And they have a social club in Cairo where they bake cookies to feed the impoverished kids of Egypt. Just a bunch of peaceful guys, trying to help out. That how you see it, brother Clapper? What a Dick. What are we paying for this worthless and uninformed rhetoric? Sickening.

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Coonshine
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pm
Who is responsible for giving this moron a job? You can hop around with one foot in your mouth but this guy is bouncing around on his asscheeks…………

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wboehmer
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pm
Clapper in December: “What London bomb ploy?” Clapper today: “The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular” How many chances is Obama gonna give this embarrassment?

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- Thighmaster
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pm
  Are you saying Obama isn’t an embarrassment?
  
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- 338lapua
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:07pm
  Is an embarassment giving an embarassment another chance…..a double negative which then cancels itself out? I’m just asking. Because if so this is a huge win for Clapper and the administration.
  
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vennoye
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:41pm
Another brilliant appointment by this administration!!!! Doesn’t the intelligence of our “leadership” give you a nice warm fuzzy feeling. Pray GOD gives them knowledge……..they sure need it.

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Race
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:39pm
I expect nothing less from this administration and the people who are appointed to positions within it. I’ve just watched the MB’s spiritual leader say he wants jihad, and his audience cheer his comments. Non-violent? REALLY?

What planet is Clapper on? Must be right beside Janet Incompetano in that alternate universe where everything is just peachy.

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- Hill Country Patriot
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pm
  Alternate universe… now there is an accurate description if I ever heard one.
  
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Conservative redneck
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pm
God help us all. Our allies have to be shaking their head knowing that these idiots are in charge.

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- jakartaman
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:32pm
  Redneck,
  
  Excellant point!
  
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- power_cord
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:06pm
  Redneck, why would they be shaking their heads?
  
  I bet they’re ROFL their collective AO, if you get what I’m saying…
  
  Either way, we’re screwed.
  
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8jrts
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pm
HELLO??? Just look at the websites and videos….a pic is worth a thousand words…or deaths as the Brotherhood would have it. Comply or die…isn’t that the motto??

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- scout n ambush
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:51pm
  Yes, they believe you are either in the house of Islam or at war with Islam one or the other they are fed this ideology from birth.
  
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cheezwhiz
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pm
said Clapper was commenting on the political system in Egypt rather than the makeup of the group itself:
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Clapper was not commenting ,
he was reading from a prepared statement .
And the topic of discussion was Muslim Brotherhood , NOT Egypt .
Them DC critters really think we are blind and deaf and stupid

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pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pm
Would this be a situation where he “clapped off”?

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justanamerican
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pm
The inmates are running the asylum…….. God help us

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Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pm
The intelligence community must be embarrassed as hell to have this crap-for-brains leading the way!!!

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- G.W. Dobbs
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:16pm
  I am becoming EMBARASSED to be an American, for the first time (to paraphrase Michelle
  Obama). HOW STUPID DOES ONE HAVE TO BE to be in the Obama Administration? Oh, I forgot;
  Obama is a HARVARD GRADUATE, as though that signifies some superior intelligence when truth be known, Obama “slipped in” on a RACE CARD and Illuminati Letters of Recomendation. His
  TELEPROMPTER is his only clue as to what to say. All Obama knows is How To Campaign. PERIOD.
  
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- missionarydad
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:11am
  Take heart G.W. Dobbs, the American people are waking up and yes I could have easily said after Obama got elected that for the first time in my adult life I am ashamed to be an American, but we as a whole are waking up and I think we will right this ship and yes we may have to wait until 2012 to really do the job right. God Bless us and get us to 2012 to where we can really clean house. In the meantime we really need to come together as Americans and hold our leaders as accountable as our system allows.
  
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Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:36pm
This guy is an idiot of the first order!

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- royalstar
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:16am
  I believe he is a useful idiot plant. Obama doesn’t want anyone competent in his intelligence agencies, because they would blow the whistle on their communist plots. I am not being sarcastic.All of his appointments are left wing marxists or communists. It is so glaring that it is hard to believe. It is like groundhog day every day.The Marxists and the Muslims must be working together as Glenn says. There is no other explanation.
  
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- Canyouhearus
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:33pm
  It seems that anyone with a real clue to what is happening in the US gets an invite to the Oval Office and many times comes out having had an attitude adjustment. Wonder what office Obama gets called to before he reads the teleprompter or plays golf. Bet Clapper never makes it to that office himself.
  
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pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:35pm
Another government employee just takin’ the check and cashing it! It’s obvious this guy is clueless!!

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- Hobo Boondocks
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 10:47am
  I said it before and I’ll say it again: Absolutely clueless directors-direct cluelessly.
  
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mcpbob
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pm
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- Showtime
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:56pm
  Thank you. I believe I will!
  
  Never have I heard such rage from people like Hannity, Beck, people here on The Blaze, everywhere! Charles Krauthammer said Clapper was just plain wrong.
  
  Telephones are probably ringing off the hook in D.C.
  
  I don’t care what Clapper, Mueller, Napolitano, Obama, or anyone else on the federal payroll says, I can’t believe anything they have to say now. They have lost their credibility as far as I’m concerned. Until Congress does something to rattle these Chicago thugs, I’m not going to leave my congressmen alone.
  
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- taebaggranny
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:39pm
  @ MCPBOB we the people Should be calling and demanding that this jerk and his staff of liars be replaced ASAP OH, Wait, that would mean that Barry Oblammer would have to replace All HIS staff..NOT GONNA HAPPEN !!!
  
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- STUBBYK
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:35pm
  He should be titled Director of Unintelligence. His I.Q. must be around minus 10.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:25pm
  STUBBYK
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:35pm
  He should be titled Director of Unintelligence. His I.Q. must be around minus 10.
  
  ____________
  But doesn’t he sort of remind us of an IL (former) Gov. now on trial for all sorts of Stupidity.
  Seems to me this bunch from Chi Town, have a real use for these kind of “Useful Idiots” maybe Clapper was just trying to play up to the vp and pull a {Joe, being Joe} moment.
  
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- jginmt
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:56am
  I wish it would only take a shot of Penicillin to take care of Clapper. Can we survive 2 more years of these liberal intellectuals?
  
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CatB
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pm
Really .. we heard the words .. came right out of his mouth … geez these people are pathetic. God save us.

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mcpbob
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pm
foot in mouth disease very common amongst the ********… no known cure yet

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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:33pm
Good lord, clap off already Clapper. Take the blue pill and go back to sleep.

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- Dustyluv
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:39pm
  How did this MORON get to this level of intel?
  Sickening!
  
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- pajamash
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:40pm
  “Shaka, when the walls fell.”
  Or would that be Clapper when the walls fell!
  
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- cheezwhiz
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:41pm
  So Clapper , what was it that convinced you about the ” secular” nature of muslim brotherhood ?
  That they are muslim ?
  
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- solaveritas
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pm
  As bad as Clapper’s comment was …… we now have to deal with the DECEPTION of his staff … trying to get us to believe Clapper was talking about the Egyptian government.
  
  An IGNORANT, MISINFORMED DIRECTOR and a LYING STAFF.
  
  His staff needs to be fired too!
  
  Note that the video informs us that Clapper’s staff lied about the UK terrorism issue. Clapper is continually stupid, and his staff continually lies.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pm
  @pajamash
  Clapper, when the lights turned off.
  
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- BMartin1776
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pm
  Oh enough of this garbage from these people and guys like Clapper. Screw taking the blue pill this guy should be canned for incompetency.
  
  No I do not accept he didnt know, I dont accept that with any of them, whether its the boy king all the way down to the radicals in denial. This all comes down to 2 outcomes: They know exactly whats going on and dont care b/c they want things to happen OR they are being a directive, by whom we would all like to know, to be quiet and not speak on things.
  
  There is noway the Dir of Natl Intelligence is not aware of the things,mainly, Beck and others have dug up. Rumsfield (dont care if you like him or not thats not the issue) knows about the MB, caliphate etc and he has been out of the picture for years! There is noway a media personality like Katie Kouric or equiv, doesnt know either. Im sure there is someone on staff that has said “look I know ‘Beck’ is an evil word around here but he has been dead on with all of this we should cover it” These ppl, whether it Dir of Natl Intel or someone in the media, know about all of this, the questions we need to be asking is WHY they are denying it and refusing to cover it!
  
  56 men, our Founding Fathers, had the courage to risk their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor for freedom, prosperity and the pursuit of happiness. What are you prepared to do? http://www.savingtherepublic.com
  
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- Enuff Zenuff
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pm
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  Sadly, this seems more typical than unusual for Obama’s administration
  
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- pajamash
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:54pm
  Darmok when they make Pajamash smile! : )
  
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- Cemoto78
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:20pm
  “your fired”
  
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- taebaggranny
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:32pm
  @ DARMOK AND JALAD Ain’t pay offs graet??? wonder what he did to help Barry get into the WH and got rewarded with this plum of a job for it///
  
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- kryptonite
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:50pm
  We should stop kidding ourselves that the WH is clueless. They know EXACTLY what is going on.
  
  The Obama Admin is winking at the MB. It’s a juggling game, because although Hussein wants to befriend Islamists, he must appear to support Israel until he is re-elected and/or communism is consolidated here in America (whichever comes first). If the Traitor does not play his cards well, he risks losing everything. How I wish the Obama-Khalidi tape could be subpoenaed!
  
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- G.W. Dobbs
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:05pm
  Clapper proves himself to be an IGNORAMOUS. Just like ALL obama’s henchmen, a Communist.
  
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- Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:09pm
  @taebaggranny
  I think Clapper my have Obama’s real Birth certificate, that might be his leverage :-)
  
  This reminds me of Clinton and Janet Reno, the only way she kept her job throughout his presidency, was she had to have dirt on him.
  
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- DisillusionedDaily
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:10pm
  One wonders what the man did for Obama to get appointed to a job that is obviously way above his mental capacity.
  
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- davecoolworld
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:17pm
  This is either deadly incompetence or treason. Taking MB at their word while in their hand, they carry a book that says they must kill infidels is suicide. islam kills their “brothers” EVERYDAY around the world. What do you think they will do to non-believers? They are laying framework…hmmm….framework….same thing we are going through with the progs. This is a conspiracy at the highest level which will bring us WWIII.
  Secular? No. Liars? Yes.
  islam is patient…so are the progs. They are working in unison on this Egypt deal. Both sides think they are the users instead of the usees. The jihad they started is coming to a corner near you and or “intellegence” is telling us not to worry. Treasonous acts.
  
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- bshepard
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:31pm
  How do I get his job.
  
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- Frank Lee Trickey
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:40pm
  His last name is clapper enough said!
  
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- Frank Lee Trickey
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:41pm
  You know where I’m from clapper is another name for an effeminate man or a female reproductive organ. I’m quite sure this guy is a big clapper and never won a fight in his life. It’s like having Ryan Seacrest the head of the Secret Service.
  
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- Ironmaan
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 9:59pm
  His statement will be played during a congressional investigation in the not too distant future, investigating intelligence failure that led to an attack by this group or an offshoot.
  http://bioterrorsurvival.com
  
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- Xcori8r
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:07pm
  I don’t believe Clapper is smart enough to be a traitor so I have to accept that he is just clueless and incompetent. Either way, he represents a clear and present danger to the country and must be fired. It is beyond belief that he could say what he did to a House committee.
  
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- AzDebi
  Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:42pm
  @Dustyluv:
  
  “How did this MORON get to this level of intel?
  Sickening!”
  _________________
  Now..Dustyluv…You KNOW how he got there…OBAMA appointment! Scary, huh? Really makes us feel safe doesn’t it?
  
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- wildbillsooner74
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:15am
  Does Clapper make you feel safe in America? We have the most incompetent Intelligence people in the World! No wonder we can’t find Osama! Osama may be sending his tapes to the world from a high rise In New York City! Just think we have Janet Napolatano the head of Homeland Security, Mr. Clapper the head of National Security ,”Wow I feel safe”! The Keystone Cops have more Credibility! No wonder Obama can implement all his corruption on Americans!
  
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- avenger
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 6:09am
  yikes….anyone with a name like clapper is not dealing with a full deck….
  
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- djeffcoat
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 9:49am
  Intelligence Director Clapper…..an oxymoron!
  
  This is an excellent example of the Peter Principle at work.
  
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- chazman
  Posted on February 11, 2011 at 4:05pm
  I want this idiot to resign and i want him to resign NOW!!!!!!!
  
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