James Clapper claims he’d never heard of Page, Papadopoulos, or Halper until after he left office

Nick Givas, DCNF

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 26: James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting at the Dirksen Senate Office Building on February 26, 2015 in Washington, DC. Clapper and Lt. Gen. Vincent Stewart , the Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, both testified on a range of topics including Muslim extemist groups and cyber threats to U.S. security. (Photo by Evy Mages/Getty Images) — (Photo by Evy Mages/Getty Images)

Former director of national intelligence James Clapper claimed Thursday on “The Hugh Hewitt Show” he’d never heard of Carter Page, George Papadopoulos, or Stefan Halper until after he had left office.

“Did you know, Mr. Halper, the academic at Cambridge? [Halper] Do you know him at all,” Hewitt asked.

“No, I do not. I didn’t know anything about that until it came out in the media,” Clapper replied. “I didn’t know anything about it contemporaneously.”

Halper, a Cambridge professor, reportedly worked as a source for the FBI and reported on the inner workings of the Trump campaign to the federal government. He also met with Papadopoulos in London while Papadopoulos was serving as a foreign policy adviser to the campaign, in an apparent attempt to extract more information.

Hewitt asked if Halper’s name ever came up at all during his work as director of intelligence and Clapper said he’d never heard of him. Clapper also claimed he’d only heard of Papadopoulos and Page after their names were discussed in the mainstream media.

Page was put under surveillance by the federal government during the 2016 presidential election, after the government requested a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant, while former President Barack Obama was still in office.

“None of these names, actually, when we left the scene in January of ’17, I never heard of George Papadopoulos. Carter Page, I may have known about mainly through media, but, and certainly the identity of the informant, I didn’t know.” Clapper concluded.

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