NSA contractor arrested

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Watergate pales to what we're confronting now

Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was rather reserved in his testimony before Congress, and in his most recent appearance his comments were nearly drowned out by the strong interest in hearing from former acting attorney general Sally Yates. This week, Clapper is on the far side of the planet, speaking before Australia’s National Press Club. Oddly enough, he sounds louder from there.

The former US director of national intelligence James Clapper says events in Washington now are more serious than the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, and that it is imperative investigators get to the bottom of the Trump administration’s links with the Putin regime.

Clapper is right. Trump’s attempts to suborn Comey, Coats, and Pompeo (at a minimum) far exceed the level of interference that eventually drove Nixon from office. He’s also right that it’s extremely important that we understand the details of Russian involvement in the 2016 election—interference that went far beyond hacking into email accounts and spreading stories through social media—as well as learn the truth about connections between Trump and Russia.

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