Included in the list are Clapper, former Vice President Joe Biden, President Obama’s Chief of Staff, and former CIA Director John Brennan. Notably,\u00a0the requests began\u00a0before<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0<\/em>Flynn’s call with former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak<\/strong>\u00a0– the classified details of which\u00a0were leaked to the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0in early 2017<\/strong>\u00a0as noted by the\u00a0Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n “Asking for names, nothing wrong with that, unmasking in of itself, nothing wrong with that,” Berman said to Clapper. “Leaking classified information, and by definition, these phone calls were classified, that’s a problem, correct?”<\/p>\n Clapper, a\u00a0CNN<\/em>\u00a0security analyst, responded “absolutely,” before the image froze and his screen went dark.<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVNewsHQ\/status\/1260905045396271111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1260905045396271111&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fcamera-feed-cuts-out-after-cnn-asks-james-clapper-about-leaking-classified-information<\/p>\n Once his feed was restored, Clapper insisted that he wasn’t the leaker.<\/p>\n “David Ignatius put out this famous column on Jan. 12 where he mentioned the phone call between Michael Flynn \u2014 the Dec. 29 phone call. Did you leak that information?” Berman asked. “I did not,” responded Clapper.”<\/p>\n https:\/\/twitter.com\/TVNewsHQ\/status\/1260911000334864385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1260911000334864385&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.zerohedge.com%2Fpolitical%2Fcamera-feed-cuts-out-after-cnn-asks-james-clapper-about-leaking-classified-information<\/p>\n Clapper insisted during Thursday’s interview that unmasking a US citizen is a “routine thing” when “you have a valid foreign intelligence target engaging with a U.S. person.”<\/p>\n That said,\u00a0he c ouldn’t remember what prompted the request “that was made on my behalf for unmasking<\/strong>”\u00a0<\/strong>regarding Flynn, but that the “general concern” was over his engagement with Russians during the Trump team’s transition to the White House. Of course, as even\u00a0Slate<\/em>\u00a0wrote back in 2017, “Meetings between the president-elect\u2019s team and foreign officials are Normal,” but that “Negotiations that undermine a sitting president\u2019s foreign policy\u00a0are not unprecedented, but remain highly controversial<\/strong> and Not Normal.’<\/p>\n John Durham, the U.S. attorney picked by Attorney General William Barr to investigate the origins of the Trump-Russia inquiry, is scrutinizing the Flynn unmaskings and subsequent leaks as part of his inquiry.<\/p>\n The Connecticut federal prosecutor is reportedly looking into a Jan. 12, 2017, article in the Washington Post by Ignatius, which said Flynn \u201ccultivates close Russian contacts\u201d and cited a \u201csenior U.S. government official\u201d who revealed\u00a0Flynn had talked to former Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on Dec. 29, 2016, which was the same day former President Barack Obama expelled 35 Russian officials<\/strong>. It is likely that this revelation, and subsequent leaks about the alleged contents of Flynn\u2019s discussions with Kislyak, were based on classified information. –Washington Examiner<\/em><\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And now, after destroying Flynn’s life in a perjury trap, the Obama all-stars are scrambling.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/James-clapper-696x398_1.jpg?itok=GX4nWjcS\")
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