{"id":187034,"date":"2013-07-16T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/16\/i-think-that-carl-levin-just-suggested-that-obama-fire-james-clapper\/"},"modified":"2013-07-16T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T22:59:00","slug":"i-think-that-carl-levin-just-suggested-that-obama-fire-james-clapper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/07\/16\/i-think-that-carl-levin-just-suggested-that-obama-fire-james-clapper\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think that Carl Levin Just Suggested that Obama Fire James Clapper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as how Levin is one of the most intelligence agency friendly Senators, so the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/blogs\/defcon-hill\/policy-and-strategy\/311353-levin-troubled-by-clappers-nsa-testimony\">he is subtly suggesting that DNI Clapper be fired<\/a> is a significant thing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that he was \u201ctroubled\u201d by the testimony of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and was unsure how Clapper could be held accountable.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The testimony prompted criticism from lawmakers and led to some calls for his resignation over the false testimony.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Levin said he wouldn\u2019t go that far but suggested that the only way Clapper could be held accountable was if President Obama fired him.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cI\u2019m troubled by that testimony, obviously,\u201d Levin said at a breakfast roundtable hosted by The Christian Science Monitor.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">\u201cHow do you hold him accountable? I guess the only way to do that would be for the president to, somehow or other, fire him,\u201d Levin added. \u201cI think he\u2019s made it clear that he regrets saying what he said. I don\u2019t want to call on the president to fire him, although I\u2019m troubled by this.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, the distinguished gentleman from Michigan <b>does<\/b> want Clapper fired, he would not have brought it up, and then dismissed the suggestion, if he did not want Clapper gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing as how Levin is one of the most intelligence agency friendly Senators, so the fact that he is subtly suggesting that DNI Clapper be fired is a significant thing: Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said Tuesday that he was \u201ctroubled\u201d by the testimony of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,975,969,1051,1102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-employment","category-evil","category-hypocrisy","category-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187034"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187034\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}