Regarding James Comey's testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the following exchange  (edited) between CNN's Anderson Cooper and former director of National Intelligence James Clapper took place: ANDERSON COOPER: General Clapper ... you said that Watergate pales to what we're confronting now.  I wonder from what you saw today and heard today, did it disabuse you of that notion at all now? JAMES CLAPPER: No, on the contrary it reinforced it.  And just so to understand the context of my comment, what the big – the big difference in my mind between Watergate, which I lived through, and this is the back drop of the Russian interference in our political process as opposed to a burglary, a break-in.  To me, that is hugely different[.] ... COOPER: In what way does it reinforce the seriousness of what the U.S.  is confronting right now? CLAPPER: Well, I think the director – former director Comey's...(Read Full Post)