Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that a postal inspector and the NYPD’s Friday morning discovery of a suspicious package addressed to him was a “relief” but not a “surprise.”
“It appears at least in this case they got the correct spelling in my name and they got the right network,” he said, jabbing the package-sender who on Wednesday tried to get a potential explosive to ex-CIA director John Brennan, but spelled his name wrong and addressed it to the wrong network.
Clapper expressed relief that he and his wife are out of town and that his neighbors didn’t handle the package, but said he was not surprised that, as a prominent critic of President Donald Trump, he was a target.
He added that Trump’s words “count,” and that he should be more aware of the power of his bully pulpit.
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— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) October 26, 2018
Warning: your typical “flip the script” scenario.
Hillary wins POTUS. A year later a Who’s Who of Republican politicians, intelligence and entertainment figures receive package bombs. Doubtless every GOP member of Congress, and Trump, and the entire wingnut media apparatus would be demanding the head of the FBI on a platter if a perp wasn’t named in about a week. And if Hillary didn’t shut down all of government in order to pursue the mad bomber there’d be hell to pay.
That’s nice, and I’m sincerely glad “his” bomb was intercepted.
But as a former “intelligence” official, would he like to take the opportunity to express his regret (can’t expect anger) for all the times the CIA has blasted its own (ostensible) enemies to smithereens?
Clapper? Brennan? Why does the GOP hate Intelligence?
Criminality and peril to innocent people aside, I do like the way this bombing drama drags eyes and ears away from GOP messaging immediately before the midterms. Trump is even having a hard time seizing the mic in the midst of all this.
There are obvious conclusions.