He writes about it in his book saying that he and his team of intelligence analysts created something that was not there. When you look at his actions then and you look at his actions in 2016 as the, as Obama's Director of National Intelligence, you see someone who has no problem whatsoever politicizing and manufacturing and weaponizing intelligence for a political outcome. And I mean that generation of intelligence leaders, whether it be Clapper or Mike Morell who wrote, who instigated the Dirty51 letter saying that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation. (54:11–54:34)
CLAIM
Asserts that James Clapper politicized and manipulated intelligence during his tenure as Director of National Intelligence under Obama.
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