FBI Director James Comey (L), U.S. Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (C) and CIA Director John Brennan (R) take their seats to testify in a House Appropriations hearing on "World Wide Threats" on Capitol Hill in Washington February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
Zero Hedge: Clapper: The U.S. Meddled In Foreign Elections And Conducted Regime Change In The "Best Interests Of The People"
Former head of US Intelligence James Clapper just admitted that the United States was simply looking out for citizens of various countries "when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturned governments," a statement directly at odds with the moral high ground claimed by President Obama and other US officials on the topic of Russian election meddling.
In an interview with Bloomberg's Tobin Harshaw published Saturday, Clapper - who is promoting his new book "Facts and Fears," said "I guess the way I think about that is that through our history, when we tried to manipulate or influence elections or even overturned governments, it was done with the best interests of the people in that country in mind,’ adding that the US has a “traditional reverence for human rights.”
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WNU Editor: By freely admitting that the U.S. has meddled in foreign elections and conducted regime change in the "best interests of the people" .... you have to wonder if James Clapper also used this same rationalization in doing the same thing in the past U.S. election. The James Clapper interview with Bloomberg is here .... James Clapper Has Some Thoughts on Donald Trump (Tobin Harshaw, Bloomberg).
Update: On a side note. This story keeps on getting better .... London ‘bridges’ falling down: Curious origins of FBI’s Trump-Russia probe (John Solomon, The Hill).
