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Tulsi Gabbard: “James Clapper had a hand in this, in the manufacturing of…”

Featuring: Tulsi Gabbard, Republican | Director of National Intelligence

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Tulsi Gabbard Launches ODNI 2.0

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I'll go back to kind of the first example in my own life. That was an eye opening experience when the deep state was activated. And specifically, James Clapper had a hand in this, in the manufacturing of intelligence, claiming that there were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to justify under the Bush administration going to war. What was interesting as we look at, look at what happened then, and I served in Iraq along with, you know, well over a million service members over the course of that war. (02:01–02:15)

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Asserts that James Clapper was involved in manufacturing intelligence about Iraq WMDs.

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