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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheck THIS Out: Clapper's whole career is based on lying to the American public for his bosses.
NYT, October 29, 2003
Iraqis Removed Arms Material, U.S. Aide (CLAPPER) Says?
The director of a top American spy agency said Tuesday that he believed that material from Iraq's illicit weapons program had been transported into Syria and perhaps other countries as part of an effort by the Iraqis to disperse and destroy evidence immediately before the recent war.
The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material ''unquestionably'' had been moved out of Iraq.
''I think people below the Saddam Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse,'' General Clapper, who leads the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said at a breakfast with reporters.
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General Clapper's agency is responsible for interpreting satellite photographs and other imagery. He declined to answer a question about whether he believed that illicit Iraqi weapons material might have been smuggled into any other country.
The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material ''unquestionably'' had been moved out of Iraq.
''I think people below the Saddam Hussein-and-his-sons level saw what was coming and decided the best thing to do was to destroy and disperse,'' General Clapper, who leads the National Imagery and Mapping Agency, said at a breakfast with reporters.
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General Clapper's agency is responsible for interpreting satellite photographs and other imagery. He declined to answer a question about whether he believed that illicit Iraqi weapons material might have been smuggled into any other country.
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/29/world/the-struggle-for-iraq-weapons-search-iraqis-removed-arms-material-us-aide-says.html
More from The Verge on the possible group members
President Obama and Director Clapper may solicit advice from notable figures in the technology industry; the president reportedly met with several leaders last Thursday, including Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google VP Vint Cerf. But with both Apple and Google implicated in some level of cooperation with the government under PRISM, the government may need to solicit input from a broader coalition of stakeholders.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/12/4614968/president-obama-james-clapper-dni-surveillance-review-group
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Check THIS Out: Clapper's whole career is based on lying to the American public for his bosses. (Original Post)
kpete
Aug 2013
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Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)1. I guess this is compared to lying and stealing.
montanacowboy
(6,085 posts)2. Pathetic
Clapper, Larry Summers, Penny Pritzer and on and on and on
Scuba
(53,475 posts)5. Careful. Let your unhappiness show and you'll be labeled "deranged".
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)3. Try to be more understanding. He had to lie so that his Corporation, Booz Allen, could get the
billions they deserved for being Friends of Bush and Cheney.
What's wrong with the 'little people' that they don't get the huge responsibility shouldered by liars like Clapper?
What would YOU do?
KoKo
(84,711 posts)4. Oh...yeah... That brings back memories.
More to come on Clapper...hopefully.
Rex
(65,616 posts)6. I guess I should be shocked, but after learning the NSA is running Congress
and not the other way around...well...nothing about this train wreck fluster fuck will surprise me anymore.