“Stunning and scary...I was amazed,” says ex-DNI James Clapper on AG Barr’s “spying” remark; What you expect from the AG 'is some independence and objectivity, not reciting talking points that he’s heard from the President and other of his supporters.”
Washington Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Wednesday it was"both stunning and scary" that Attorney General William Barr would tell lawmakers that Donald Trump's 2016 campaign was spied on.
"I thought it was both stunning and scary," Clapper, who served under President Barack Obama, told CNN's Anderson Cooper."I was amazed at that and rather disappointed that the attorney general would say such a thing. The term 'spying' has all kinds of negative connotations and I have to believe he chose that term deliberately.
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