Intel Director‘s Office Tries to Backpedal on Clapper’s Shocking Statement
- Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:31pm by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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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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Comments (159)
scout n ambush
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pmFOIA request and find out who prepared his report is this Intel from CAIRN or the NASA muslim outreach program.
Report Post »Slap Shot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pmComplete 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.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:47pmMakes 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?
Report Post »trolltrainer
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pmwhere are all the ******* trolls?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:18pmTaking their meds…..cuz this one is bad!!
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:02amThey are all trying to get Clappers head out of his *ss
Report Post »beckisnutsisnuts
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:23pmLMAO ******* trolls LOL
Report Post »Don
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pmBehold the genius of the one called Clapper!
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pmDo any one of you also feel like we are living in an episode of the Twilight Zone these days???
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 9:07pmEverytime I look out the plane window, I see a monster tearing apart the wires.
Report Post »Canyouhearus
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:38pmDefinitely living in a time warp! Scary one! Just told my husband that the other day!
Report Post »ctate970
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:44pmRemember Bush’s Brownie comment after Katrina? Will we see the same results here?
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pmThese 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.
Report Post »Conservative redneck
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pmI’m with ya Hill Country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »randy
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:57pmAmen Brother!
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:15pmI 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.
Report Post »Gita
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:38pmAmen to that!
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pmSo was he acting stupidly then or is he acting stupidly now? These people are protecting us????
Report Post »alcarfl
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pmAnd 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.
Report Post »Coonshine
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pmWho 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…………
Report Post »wboehmer
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pmClapper in December: “What London bomb ploy?” Clapper today: “The Muslim Brotherhood is largely secular” How many chances is Obama gonna give this embarrassment?
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pmAre you saying Obama isn’t an embarrassment?
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:07pmIs 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.
Report Post »vennoye
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:41pmAnother 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.
Report Post »Race
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:39pmI 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.
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:46pmAlternate universe… now there is an accurate description if I ever heard one.
Report Post »Conservative redneck
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pmGod help us all. Our allies have to be shaking their head knowing that these idiots are in charge.
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:32pmRedneck,
Excellant point!
Report Post »power_cord
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 11:06pmRedneck, 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.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pmHELLO??? 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??
Report Post »scout n ambush
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:51pmYes, 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.
Report Post »cheezwhiz
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:38pmsaid Clapper was commenting on the political system in Egypt rather than the makeup of the group itself:
Report Post »————
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
pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pmWould this be a situation where he “clapped off”?
Report Post »justanamerican
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pmThe inmates are running the asylum…….. God help us
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:37pmThe intelligence community must be embarrassed as hell to have this crap-for-brains leading the way!!!
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:16pmI am becoming EMBARASSED to be an American, for the first time (to paraphrase Michelle
Report Post »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.
missionarydad
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:11amTake 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.
Report Post »Hill Country Patriot
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:36pmThis guy is an idiot of the first order!
Report Post »royalstar
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:16amI 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.
Report Post »Canyouhearus
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 12:33pmIt 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.
Report Post »pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:35pmAnother government employee just takin’ the check and cashing it! It’s obvious this guy is clueless!!
Report Post »Hobo Boondocks
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 10:47amI said it before and I’ll say it again: Absolutely clueless directors-direct cluelessly.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pmAdd your comments
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:56pmThank 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.
Report Post »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 !!!
Report Post »STUBBYK
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:35pmHe should be titled Director of Unintelligence. His I.Q. must be around minus 10.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:25pmSTUBBYK
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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Report Post »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.
jginmt
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:56amI wish it would only take a shot of Penicillin to take care of Clapper. Can we survive 2 more years of these liberal intellectuals?
Report Post »CatB
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pmReally .. we heard the words .. came right out of his mouth … geez these people are pathetic. God save us.
Report Post »mcpbob
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:34pmfoot in mouth disease very common amongst the ********… no known cure yet
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:33pmGood lord, clap off already Clapper. Take the blue pill and go back to sleep.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:39pmHow did this MORON get to this level of intel?
Report Post »Sickening!
pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:40pm“Shaka, when the walls fell.”
Report Post »Or would that be Clapper when the walls fell!
cheezwhiz
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:41pmSo Clapper , what was it that convinced you about the “ secular” nature of muslim brotherhood ?
Report Post »That they are muslim ?
solaveritas
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:42pmAs 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.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:43pm@pajamash
Report Post »Clapper, when the lights turned off.
BMartin1776
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:45pmOh 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
Report Post »Enuff Zenuff
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:49pm.
Report Post »Sadly, this seems more typical than unusual for Obama’s administration
pajamash
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 6:54pmDarmok when they make Pajamash smile! : )
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:20pm“your fired”
Report Post »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///
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 7:50pmWe 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!
Report Post »G.W. Dobbs
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:05pmClapper proves himself to be an IGNORAMOUS. Just like ALL obama’s henchmen, a Communist.
Report Post »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.
Report Post »DisillusionedDaily
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:10pmOne wonders what the man did for Obama to get appointed to a job that is obviously way above his mental capacity.
Report Post »davecoolworld
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:17pmThis 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.
Report Post »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.
bshepard
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:31pmHow do I get his job.
Report Post »Frank Lee Trickey
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:40pmHis last name is clapper enough said!
Report Post »Frank Lee Trickey
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 8:41pmYou 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.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 9:59pmHis 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.
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Xcori8r
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:07pmI 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.
Report Post »AzDebi
Posted on February 10, 2011 at 10:42pm@Dustyluv:
“How did this MORON get to this level of intel?
Report Post »Sickening!”
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Now..Dustyluv…You KNOW how he got there…OBAMA appointment! Scary, huh? Really makes us feel safe doesn’t it?
wildbillsooner74
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 3:15amDoes 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!
Report Post »avenger
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 6:09amyikes….anyone with a name like clapper is not dealing with a full deck….
Report Post »djeffcoat
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 9:49amIntelligence Director Clapper…..an oxymoron!
This is an excellent example of the Peter Principle at work.
Report Post »chazman
Posted on February 11, 2011 at 4:05pmI want this idiot to resign and i want him to resign NOW!!!!!!!
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