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Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
November 18, 2016
Establishment figures are making a mad-dash for the door.
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper delivered some reassurance Thursday to Americans worried about the Trump transition — along with his resignation.
“I know a lot of people have been feeling uncertain about what will happen with this Presidential transition,” Clapper said. “There has been a lot of catastrophizing, if I can use that term, in the 24-hour news cycle and social media. So, I’m here with a message: It will be okay.”
The exit of Clapper, who submitted his resignation Wednesday evening, is not a surprise.
In interviews with NBC News over the last year, Clapper said he was counting down the days to stepping down at the end of President Obama’s final term in office. He started as a young intelligence officer reporting to his father during the Vietnam War and said that after than 50 years of service it was time to go.
Clapper’s resignation, which is effective Jan. 17, comes as the Trump team has been struggling to put together a cabinet and mulling what’s likely to be a change in national security direction once Obama departs.
In testimony to the House Select Intelligence Committee, Clapper said submitting the resignation “felt pretty good.”
But soon it was back to politics. And Clapper found himself fielding a question from Rep. Joaquin Castro, a Texas Democrat, about FBI director James Comey’s sudden announcement — in the final days of the presidential campaign — that he was reopening an investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Calling Comey’s move an “unprecedented intrusion by a director within our own intelligence community in our democratic process,” Castro asked Clapper if “you believe that Director Comey breached any protocol.”
“I have no reason to question Director Comey,” Clapper replied. “I think extremely highly of him so whatever actions he took he did so what he felt was best and I have no basis for questioning him.”
Clapper’s job is to oversee Comey’s FBI and 16 other intelligence agencies, including the CIA, NSA (National Security Agency) and the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration).
Appointed by Obama and confirmed by the Senate in 2010, Clapper’s tenure in office was marked by high profile showdowns over the government’s desire to protect its Americans and citizens’ civil liberties.
We need to appoint Julian Assange as the head of National Intelligence.
He’s the only person we can trust for the job. Assange, or possibly weev.
