<p class="p1"><span class="s1">The House Intelligence Committee is claiming in its report released last week that the former Director of National Intelligence (DNI) James Clapper leaked anti-Trump information to the press that was compiled in the Steele &#8220;dossier.&#8221;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;On January 10, 2017, <em>CNN</em> published an article by Tapper and others, which claimed that &#8216;classified documents presented last week to President Obama and President-elect Trump included allegations &#8230; about Mr. Trump&#8217; that were (1) &#8216;presented in a two-page synopsis &#8230; appended to a report on Russian interference in the 2016 election&#8217; and (2) derived from &#8216;memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative.,&#8221; writes the committee&#8217;s report.</span> ;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;If true, both the national intelligence chief and then-FBI Director James Comey leaked information while denying such violations to Congress. Moreover, even if Clapper waited until shortly after leaving office, it is deeply troubling that he would confirm details of the dossier, which was under investigation,&#8221; writes <em>The Hill.</em></span> ;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Specifically, the report says that Clapper gave an &#8220;inconsistent testimony&rdquo; to Congress when he denied &ldquo;discuss[ing] the dossier or any other intelligence related to Russia hacking of the 2016 election with journalists.&rdquo; ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;Clapper subsequently acknowledged discussing the &lsquo;dossier with <em>CNN </em>journalist Jake Tapper,&rsquo; and admitted that he might have spoken with other journalists about the same topic,&rdquo; writes the committee&#8217;s report. ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Clapper, now turned paid <em>CNN</em> analyst, admitted to the House Permanent Select Committee that he did brief <em>CNN</em>&#8216;s Jake Tapper in January of 2017, but prior to that, he &#8220;flatly denied&#8221; leaking ;any of the information collected in Steele&#8217;s dossier. ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&#8220;Clapper allegedly gave<em> CNN</em> the confirmation around the time that President Obama and President-elect Trump were given classified briefings on the dossier. On Jan. 10, 2017, Tapper and <em>CNN </em>ran with the breaking news that Obama and Trump were briefed on the &ldquo;memos compiled by a former British intelligence operative.&rdquo; Tapper cited &ldquo;U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the briefings&rdquo; and even described the &ldquo;two-page synopsis&rdquo; given to Obama and Trump. (The dossier was published in full by<em> BuzzFeed </em>after <em>CNN</em>&rsquo;s disclosure,&#8221; writes <em>The Hill.</em></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;The Committee assesses that leaks to <em>CNN</em> about the dossier were especially significant, since <em>CNN</em>&rsquo;s report &lsquo; that a two-page synopsis of the report was given to President Obama and Trump&rsquo; was the proximate cause of<em> BuzzFeed News</em>&rsquo; decision to publish the dossier for the first time just a few hours later,&rdquo; writes the committee&#8217;s report. &ldquo;Until that point, the dossier had been &lsquo;circulating among elected official, intelligence agents, and journalists,&rsquo; but remained unpublished. As the accompanying article explained, &lsquo;[n]ow<em> BuzzFeed News</em> is publishing the full document so that Americans can make up their own minds about allegations about the president-elect that have circulated at the highest levels of government.&rdquo;</span> ;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Christoper Steele, an ex- British intelligence officer, was paid by the Democratic National Committee and the Hillary Clinton campaign to compile a dossier on the Trump campaign.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> ;</span></span> ;</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security,&#8221; said Clapper after the &#8220;dossier&#8221; leak.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> ;</span></span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">&ldquo;I talked about it after I left government,&rdquo; said Clapper. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t understand how I leaked it to <em>CNN</em>.&rdquo;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">However, Clapper retired in January of 2017. This wasn&#8217;t the only time Clapper lied to Congress either. Clapper denied that the NSA was spying on millions of Americans electronically. He  ;eventually publicly apologized for lying to lawmakers and the public. ;</span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1"><strong>Author&#8217;s note: </strong>Clapper is/was compromised by the DNC, Hillary&#8217;s campaign and even <em>CNN</em>. This proves that he leaked the fake &#8220;dossier,&#8221; which was commissioned by the Clinton campaign. His weight behind the leak to <em>CNN</em> gave it credibility. Then since he gave <em>CNN</em> the scoop, they repaid the favor and gave him a job as a commentator.</span></p>