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Anti-Trump Whistleblower Attorney Worked Directly For James Clapper
Thefederalist.com ^ | October 9, 2019 By Tristan Justice

Posted on 10/09/2019 9:00:08 AM PDT by Red Badger

One of the attorneys representing the anonymous “whistleblowers” accusing President Donald Trump of conspiring with foreign leaders to interfere in the next U.S. presidential election used to report directly to former director of national intelligence James Clapper.

Charles McCullough, an attorney now representing the whistleblowers with Andrew Bakaj, a former staffer for Sens. Chuck Schumer and Hillary Clinton, was previously the inspector general of the intelligence community (ICIG) at the height of the Clinton email scandal.

Now a partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group, McCullough’s professional biography on the law firm’s website notes that he reported directly to Clapper as ICIG and “oversaw intelligence officers responsible for audits, inspections, investigations.”

Clapper, who joined CNN as a national security analyst after leaving government in 2017, was a central figure in perpetuating the Russia hoax against Trump and lied to Congress about mass surveillance on Americans. When asked under oath in March 2013 by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., whether the federal government was collecting “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans,” Clapper responded “no sir… not wittingly.”

While director of the Department of National Intelligence, Clapper was instrumental in crafting whistleblower protections mandating that no employee of the intelligence committee be made subject to reprisals for reports made in compliance with department guidelines.

Last December, McCullough praised Clapper in an interview with Fox 5. “I enjoyed a very good relationship with Jim Clapper, we got along fabulously.”

Tristan Justice is a staff writer at The Federalist focusing on the 2020 presidential campaigns. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government; Politics/Elections
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1 posted on 10/09/2019 9:00:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Liz

Surprise surprise...


2 posted on 10/09/2019 9:02:03 AM PDT by GOPJ (<img src=https://i.imgur.com/WjoG6dB.png width=500> Dems are taking a leaf out of old KGB handbooks)
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To: Red Badger

He should have blown the whistle on Clapper. Where was he then?


3 posted on 10/09/2019 9:02:34 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: Brilliant

Blowing Clapper’s whistle......................


4 posted on 10/09/2019 9:03:53 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger

Seems like the web is getting smaller.


5 posted on 10/09/2019 9:04:38 AM PDT by z3n
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To: GOPJ

......shocker.......cackle.....


6 posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:17 AM PDT by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use.)
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To: Red Badger
"...Blowing Clapper’s whistle..."

Monica, is that you???

7 posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:42 AM PDT by budj (combat vet, 2nd of 3 generations)
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To: Red Badger

Not having charged these people with crimes over FISA abuse immediately only served as a green light for deep state trickery to continue. Not charging Comey was a huge mistake. Now any indictments will be obstruction of justice claims and the media is full on board with that.


8 posted on 10/09/2019 9:05:51 AM PDT by blackdog
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To: Red Badger

And yesterday Byron York reported on the Washington Examiner the CIA analyst Fake Whistleblower had a “professional” relationship with a Dem presidential candidate.

These people are begging to be rounded up and arrested for sedition.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/whistleblower-had-professional-tie-to-2020-democratic-candidate


9 posted on 10/09/2019 9:08:39 AM PDT by romanesq (8Chan and its child porn, violence and murders are kaput. So is the QAnon grift with it.)
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To: z3n

> Seems like the web is getting smaller.

Yep, getting down to the tight core of the conspiracy. Hang them all.


10 posted on 10/09/2019 9:08:46 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: Red Badger
Remember, just before Obama left office, on January 12, 2017, changed the rules and removed all walls so that all intelligence agencies could talk to each other. I think the number of agencies involved was 17.

That means thousands of our Sterling agents had access to just about every intelligence file.

11 posted on 10/09/2019 9:10:27 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Red Badger

“Now a partner at the Compass Rose Legal Group...”

So, you could say he works for a “Rose law firm”?


12 posted on 10/09/2019 9:19:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: Boogieman

Nice!................


13 posted on 10/09/2019 9:21:04 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: z3n
Like a cast net.................😏
14 posted on 10/09/2019 9:22:08 AM PDT by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain...................)
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To: Red Badger

this is all laughable...


15 posted on 10/09/2019 9:27:45 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: Red Badger

Incestuous little Swamp, isn’t it.


16 posted on 10/09/2019 9:51:50 AM PDT by Ken H (2019 => The House of Representin')
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To: Red Badger
Anti-Trump Whistleblower Attorney Worked Directly For James Clapper

"No one was more surprised than me, Your Honor."

17 posted on 10/09/2019 9:54:45 AM PDT by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrats' John Dean])
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To: Red Badger

Robert Mueller’s *dud* testimony killed “Russian Collusion” forever.

That happened at the end of July. This “Ukraine Collusion” story began 2 weeks later on Aug 15. Actually August 16 when someone talked about this phone call.

They were looking for something to replace Mueller’s report after he came out looking like a doddering old fool.

But they only had ‘hearsay’ evidence of the phone call. So they changed the whistle-blower form.

THIS WAS PLANNED AND STAGED EVENT by Schiff-for-brains and crew.


19 posted on 10/09/2019 10:05:30 AM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: blackdog

You can bet the strategy is to build watertight cases with a bunch of affidavits so there’s no window room and then release it all in the summer of 2020 right before the election it’s all the media has to talk about is democrat corruption right before the election in November


20 posted on 10/09/2019 10:05:38 AM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guvmint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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