# Claims About James Clapper, Iraq WMD Intelligence and 2016

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119430834742870289
- Source account: [@DeepLeaksHQ](https://x.com/DeepLeaksHQ)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:47
- Published: 2026-11-08
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mf9GkyP2s0zc/en/claims-about-james-clapper-iraq-wmd-intelligence-and-2016

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mf9GkyP2s0zc/en/claims-about-james-clapper-iraq-wmd-intelligence-and-2016) James Clapper- Mm-hmm ... was on the team that created that manufactured intelligence assessment that led to the Iraq War, about the Iraq WMDs.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mf9GkyP2s0zc/en/claims-about-james-clapper-iraq-wmd-intelligence-and-2016?t=11) He writes about it in his book, saying that he and his team of intelligence analysts created something that was not there.

[0:25](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/mf9GkyP2s0zc/en/claims-about-james-clapper-iraq-wmd-intelligence-and-2016?t=25) When you look at his actions then, and you look at his actions in 2016 as the, as Obama's Director of National Intelligence, you see someone who has no problem whatsoever politicizing and manufacturing and weaponizing intelligence for a political outcome