I have been struggling with whether to post about this and it is mostly to see if others think anything is there. I was just watching James Clapper on CNN. They were asking him about his views of the Russia investigation. First he said that it wasn’t that he didn’t think Trump colluded with Russia but that he didn’t know because of the type of investigations he was privy to and their capabilities. I don’t think I ever heard him say this that strongly but it is not really new if you listen to him closely. But then he said something that struck me as extraordinary. Without any prompting at all by the CNN hosts he then added that he also didn’t know if there was trouble with the vote tallies for basically the same reasons, he didn’t have the capabilities of investigating this. I turned to the other person in the room with me and we were both thinking the same thing. Clapper is extremely, extremely careful in what he says, almost robotic. That also means everything he says means something. I have not heard the issue of vote tallies raised by anybody in government establishment or even journalism, let alone somebody like Clapper, since the electoral college voted. This in spite of the fact that one of the leading analysts of voting in the world had warned there were some pretty big troubles with the vote tallies. The whole thing was thrown on to the dung heap of history, I thought never to be heard from again. All of a sudden Clapper is raising it, even to say he doesn’t know anything about it. It is of course an important way to say something without saying anything. Just a warning, if somebody brings it up to Clapper he’ll claim it doesn’t mean anything. This is standard. But it seems quite a bit out of the ordinary that Clapper would bring this up out of nowhere. Does it mean anything?
And please, I don’t want one of the savvy, brilliant analysts on DKOS to leave their standard one word “NO” message.