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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: Clueless Clapper Calls It Quits

Nov 18, 2016 10:46 am By Robert Spencer

The era of fantasy-based policymaking is drawing to a close. My latest in FrontPage:

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Barack Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, submitted his letter of resignation on Wednesday, and the next day he told the House Select Committee on Intelligence that doing so “felt pretty good….I have 64 days left and I’d have a pretty hard time with my wife going past that.” Why? Is Mrs. Clapper opposed to intelligence policies based on politically correct fantasies and willful ignorance?

Nothing epitomizes more perfectly the Obama Administration’s consistent refusal to come to grips with the reality of the global jihad than Clapper’s embarrassing tenure as Director of National Intelligence.

One incident that took place in December 2010, four months after Clapper took office, epitomized his abject incompetence. British authorities arrested twelve jihadists who had been planning to set off bombs in a variety of locations; that same day, Clapper appeared on Diane Sawyer’s ABC show, on which Sawyer said to him that she expected he must be very busy with the London arrests. Clapper looked confused, and admitted that he had no idea what she was talking about. Arrests? A terror plot?

Had Sawyer been conducting a man-on-the-street interview, and Clapper was in reality the befuddled accountant he appears to be, he might be excused for having no idea that a large-scale anti-terror operation had just been carried out in London. But this was the Director of National Intelligence, and he was far less informed and up to speed on the situation than was Sawyer herself, or probably an entire legion of befuddled accountants.

Obama’s team ran interference for Clapper, claiming essentially that Clapper had been so involved with the London arrests that he was too preoccupied to answer Sawyer’s question properly, but that his display of cluelessness was no indication of…cluelessness.

But it was. Clapper showed that again in February 2011, when he claimed at the height of the Egyptian “Arab Spring” that the Muslim Brotherhood was “largely secular,” a claim as absurd as it was inaccurate. Although the subsequent torrent of ridicule compelled the Obama camp to issue a correction, the subtext of Clapper’s statement was clear: the Obama Administration had no problem with Muslim Brotherhood rule in Egypt, and was not only going to do nothing to stop it, but was going actively to enable it.

The Brotherhood that Obama worked so assiduously to aid is dedicated, of course, to establishing the rule of Islamic law not only in Egypt, but everywhere that it possibly can. And if that rather commonplace fact was too much for Clapper and his boss, they could have resorted to a much simpler indicator of the religious foundation of the Brotherhood’s political program: its name. It isn’t, after all, called the Arab Nationalist Brotherhood, or the Egyptian Brotherhood, but rather the Muslim Brotherhood. Its name itself shows that it is no more secular than the Christian Brothers religious order.

Clapper also appeared woefully (if not willfully) ignorant of the Brotherhood’s pro-Sharia agenda, and no doubt completely oblivious to the implications for the United States and the world of an Egypt governed by Islamic law.

There was, of course, more. In March 2011, Clapper told Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) that Russia and China represented the greatest “mortal threat” to the United States.

Russia and China? Not North Korea and Iran, or the forces of the global jihad that grew steadily more aggressive while Clapper was Director of National Intelligence? Clapper’s statement sounded like a Rip Van Winkle who had been sleeping for twenty years or longer, and nobody had gotten around to clueing him in to the fact that the Cold War was over.

Had Clapper, a retired lieutenant general in the Air Force and longtime intelligence professional, made any study in the area of national intelligence since 1985? Was he aware that the world situation has drastically changed since 1985? Had he had any kind of thought at all since 1985?

James Clapper is perhaps the most abysmally ignorant and unqualified individual ever to have held a position of so much responsibility. While he was Director of National Intelligence, Clapper repeatedly demonstrated that he had no idea about the nature of the world today, no sense of the genuine threats that face the United States, and no clue as to what to do about those threats.

Yet instead of firing him, Obama continually made excuses for him, explaining away his idiotic remarks, and running interference for him with the international media. What Clapper did to merit such solicitude is unclear, but the stakes were far too high for the nonsense and fantasy that Clapper purveyed. While he was Director of National Intelligence, Clapper made every American less safe. He epitomized the denial and willful ignorance that characterized the Obama administration’s approach to the jihad threat. In this time of swamp-draining, Clueless Clapper is leaving the stage not a moment too soon.

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Filed Under: Barack Obama, Featured, Robert Spencer, Useful idiots, willful ignorance Tagged With: Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper


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  1. Don McKellar says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 10:52 am

    CLAP ON! CLAP OFF! CLAPONCLAPOFF! THE CLAPPER!

    That 2010 story with the ABC news “gotcha” on the freaking “Director of Intelligence” tells all about this fool.

  2. David says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 10:58 am

    I think that Osama kept him in place ON PURPOSE! Can’t you imagine what a real Director would have to say about Osama’s pro-mudslime policy?

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 11:19 am

      That is almost certainly why he was kept there.

    • Mac-101 says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 7:01 pm

      Agreed. However, unless he was suffering brain loss due to old age or an illness, I suspect his ignorance was purposeful and he along with Brennan and Obama and most of this Administration are Traitors!

      • A Harris USA says

        Nov 19, 2016 at 11:26 am

        These Obama minions are on their way to the ash heap of history!! Thank God!! There has to be a drain of the swamp of DC!! These people are part of the global plan.. Clapper is old fool, and Obama could manipulate them. Just keep an eye on the Trump administration, the swamp will become a desert very soon. Gen. Flynn as National Security Advisor is already making me sleep better at night.
        Traitors are running for the door, and the cry babies on face book, and twitter, and so on,and are still throwing temper tantrums, and let them go at it!! Poor little babies!!
        BTW all you Muslim cry babies, PLEASE leave don’t just threaten to do so GO!!

        • Ron Woodward says

          Nov 19, 2016 at 12:31 pm

          I worked for both Clapper and Flynn. Clapper was a good Colonel, but a terrible General and an even worse Director of National Intelligence. I underestimated Flynn and should have taken evidence to Jim that I wrongly thought he would ignore. He is not afraid to speak truth to power and will make a good NSA. It s about time we began identifying the enemies. There is no way you can solve a problem that you refuse to identify properly!

        • Mac-101 says

          Nov 19, 2016 at 12:32 pm

          Just keep on praying you are correct. A lot of Oil Tick and BANKSTER money is in the mix and a lot of very powerful people have been going against the best interest of the USA for a long time!

        • Custos Custodum says

          Nov 19, 2016 at 1:13 pm

          These Obama minions are on their way to the ash heap of history!!

          The Obamites have spent years setting up multiple “stay behind” organizations as bases to inculcate impressionable minds to launch attacks against the new regime from all sides:

          (1) PBS and private media, especially the Saudi/Lebanese-Mexican owned NYT.

          (2) The entire education system with schools of “education” in the vanguard. (E.g. Bill Ayers.)

          (3) The Race (aka La Raza).

          (4) A plethora of Soros-funded front groups including violent organizations for totalitarian international socialism, such as “Black” “Lives” “Matter.”

          (5) Long-established communist front groups such as the “Southern” “Poverty” “Law” Center, etc.

        • Mac-101 says

          Nov 19, 2016 at 2:25 pm

          Ron, so you are saying Clapper was just STUPID? Or incompetent or corrupt? It has to be one of the three. I have never worked for a Stupid Full Bird. Anyone with half a brain cell understands Islam. Especially those of us who have had to live part of our lives in Islamic Paradises. Could he have had a medical condition? Or is he suckin off da Oil Ticks? Surely he is not a coward and just plain scared for himself and his FAMILY?

  3. mccode says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 11:39 am

    Getting rid of just more Clap Trap

  4. Michael Laudahn says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 11:42 am

    ‘Amerika, du hast es besser – als unser kontinent, der alte.’ (Goethe)

    It seems he was right.

    • Allan says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 4:19 pm

      He was correct also about being wary of stories about knights, robbers, and ghosts.

  5. JIMJFOX says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 11:48 am

    Great article, Mr S!
    We non-Americans have a hard time getting our heads around US politics and the whackos who
    sometimes infest it. Clapper is one such, I now realise. Keith Ellison? Another one to watch closely.

  6. Diimaa says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 11:55 am

    Accountant-phobia must stop. We are all sharp hardworking patriotic Americans.
    The hate coming from accountant-phobes is killing innocent accountants.

    • Phil Copson says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 6:19 pm

      Outrageous ! By claiming that all finance-based phobia is directed against accountants, you seek to marginalise the very real post-Trump, post-Brexit. Last Post,Last Trump, Washington Post, Washington Irving etc trauma caused to the real victims of CharteredAccountant-o-Phobia. Beware the anger of the chartered accountant ! You scoffed at our mid-morning milk and biscuits, and derided our fastidiously sharpened pencils ! The same may yet come, my friend, when we chartered accountants shall arise and
      build a pencil so large and so fearsomely sharpened, that we shall destroy you all !!!!

      • Phil Copson says

        Nov 18, 2016 at 6:20 pm

        correction….”DAY may yet come…..

    • quotha raven says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 8:14 pm

      Totally lol, Diimaa!

      Cheers!

      quota raven

  7. daveleo says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 12:10 pm

    Robert Spencer—-I hope that you are going to be part of the new administration —have they asked you for your help?…….you should send out feelers to the Trump security team and let them know you are the expert on Islam and Jihad.

    • Don McKellar says

      Nov 18, 2016 at 12:26 pm

      Steve Bannon is very familiar with and has interviewed and praised Robert Spencer on radio. As, I am sure, are others so far named as part of the administration. There is even evidence from his Tweets that Trump is familiar with the work that Robert Spencer does.

      • John Stefan says

        Nov 19, 2016 at 6:04 pm

        I read here in Jihad Watch from someone that said that Trump does read Jihad Watch. I surely hope that that is true. God bless Trump and all of his helpers in the next 4 years and better yet: the next 8 years.

        • Angemon says

          Nov 21, 2016 at 7:30 am

          While I don’t know if Trump is aware of the existence of Jihad Watch, people close to him definitely are, and seemingly have a high regard for JW and Mr. Spencer:

          https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/07/video-robert-spencer-on-breitbart-the-complete-infidels-guide-to-iran

  8. mortimer says

    Nov 18, 2016 at 12:28 pm

    Fantasy-based intelligence is no intelligence at all.

  9. Stewart Davies says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 3:14 am

    Total fools, imbeciles and ignoramuses like James Clapper are an invaluable asset in today’s cynical political environment.

  10. Tom Geyer says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 10:05 am

    Don’t let the doorknob hit ya Jim.

  11. Carolyne says

    Nov 19, 2016 at 10:39 am

    I was quite mesmerized by Mr. Clapper’s tic while he was testifying for Congress. It seemed that every time he lied, he would would flicker his forefinger across his right bald pate. Hillary Clinton goes into a pill-rolling motion which is sometimes present in Parkinsons. Butt his rubbing motion of Mr. Clapper’s is a puzzlement. I thought at one point he would rub the skin off his head. In any case, his resignation was not dissatisfaction with Mr. Trump being elected, he would have to resign in any case when a new President takes office. He did a poor job anyway. Under his reign, more and more muslims have infiltrated our country.

  12. PTL4JW says

    Nov 20, 2016 at 12:39 pm

    I feel safer knowing Clapper’s going to be gone and 64 days.

  13. Islam the religion of killers says

    Dec 9, 2016 at 10:58 pm

    It’s a tough decision handing in your notice when you know you’re about to get fired,

    getting fired is bad for the CV, total ineptitude & no idea about intelligence doesn’t look that good either ….

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