Tulsi Gabbard: “James Clapper wrote in his book about How Dick Cheney was…”

“And I'll just give this one example because it goes back to the creation of this organization. I lead odni. James Clapper was an intelligence community leader during the time before our country went to war with Iraq. James Clapper wrote in his book about How Dick Cheney was telling the intelligence community, I need you to come up with intelligence... that will give Colin Powell what he needed to go to bring to the UN as evidence of weapons of mass destruction. of evidence that. That Saddam Hussein is colluding with Al Qaeda. And in James Clapper's own words, he said that he and his colleagues were so eager to do what Dick Cheney told them to do, that, quote, we created something that wasn't there.” (12:18–12:36)

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