Rand Paul Calls for Nation’s Top Intelligence Official to Resign

Posted on June 19, 2013 by

Pulling no punches as he answered a CNN reporter’s questions, U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) went so far as to agree that President Barack Obama should ask for the immediate resignation of Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.

“What I’m saying is that, by lying to Congress — which is against the law — (Clapper) severely damaged the credibility of the entire (Senate) Intelligence Committee,” said Senator Paul, joining a growing chorus of elected officials — including Libertarian Congressman Justin Amash of Michigan — who’ve said the nation’s top intelligence official “should resign immediately” for statements made under oath while testifying before members of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee March 12.

I agree with Senator Paul: DNI Clapper lied under oath, plain and simple, about domestic surveillance and data collection activities conducted by National Security Agency officials. Beyond that, however, I appreciate the irony of the senator’s use of the word, credibility, during his CNN appearance.

Why? Because the phrase, “credibility assessment,” is used often by federal government officials to describe their activities that rely heavily on the use of century-old polygraph technology to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay, enemy combatants captured on battlefields and others, including suspected terrorists, criminals and spies. In addition, it’s necessarily mentioned dozens of times in my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO.

The end product of an exhaustive four-year investigation, THE CLAPPER MEMO shines a spotlight on three memos — including one issued by Clapper while serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence — that banned all non-polygraph technologies from being used by DoD personnel despite the fact that one of those technologies had been proven much more accurate and effective.

In addition, THE CLAPPER MEMO reveals in startling detail the flaws permeating the U.S. Government’s flawed approach to credibility assessment and how those flaws are linked directly to the aforementioned band and, in turn, hundreds of American and Coalition Forces casualties in Afghanistan during the past six years.

Endorsed by three heavyweight Americans, THE CLAPPER MEMO is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon. After you read the book, I hope you’ll contact your elected officials in the nation’s capitol and demand they reverse DoD’s ban on the use of non-polygraph technologies.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

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Polygraph Exams Should Have Caught Edward Snowden

Posted on June 18, 2013 by

Many labels will be attached to Edward Snowden’s public identity as the the source behind what one newspaper reporter described as the biggest intelligence leak in the National Security Agency’s history. As far as I’m concerned, the 29-year-old deserves a special place in history, positioned alongside notorious spies — including John Anthony Walker Jr., Jonathan Jay Pollard and Ana Belen Montes — who were able to defeat both the polygraph and the best efforts of their government.

James R. Clapper Jr.

Don’t take this the wrong way, because I’m as patriotic as the next guy and am not willing to paint Snowden as a hero just yet. That said, I still have a sour taste in my mouth about the domestic surveillance and data collection activities that have taken place under the supervision of Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.

You might recall, it was almost one year ago that Clapper, the nation’s top intelligence official, announced he would implement tough new measures aimed at stemming the spate of unauthorized disclosures of national security information that had dogged the Intelligence Community during his watch. Those measures, which focused largely on the types of questions asked federal employees during polygraph exams, generated many headlines:

Intelligence Chief Announces New Rules to Curb Leaks — New York Times;

Spy chief toughens employee polygraph to stem leaks — Reuters; and

Spy chief Clapper wields lie detector in war on leaks — ABC News.

In a timely article I wrote on the subject, I faulted Clapper for putting all of our national security “eggs” inside a “basket” full of holes. One year later, Snowden is one of those eggs, and he appears to be all over Clapper’s face.

Because his level of access would have required it, according to a source of mine (name withheld) who boasts almost three decades of counterintelligence work, Snowden must have taken — and passed – several polygraph exams as a condition of his multiple stints of employment with three-letter intelligence agencies and at least one government contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton. That in mind, I point out a key sentence that appeared in one of The Guardian newspaper’s early articles about Snowden:

He said it was during his CIA stint in Geneva that he thought for the first time about exposing government secrets. But, at the time, he chose not to for two reasons.

If, indeed, Snowden had had thoughts about exposing government secrets while employed by the CIA, the results of the polygraph exam(s) he took prior to and during his employment by that agency should have yielded clues to that could have led examiners to the truth about Snowden’s mindset. File this under, “Should have. Could have. Would have.”

The Counterintelligence Scope polygraph exam employed by the CIA, according to my source, isn’t nearly as thorough as the Full Scope polygraph exam used by the NSA. Further, the Full Scope exam is more intrusive and notoriously more difficult to defeat.

Some individuals, my source concluded, have been “put on ice,” forced to wait as many as 12 months before being cleared by NSA polygraph examiners. Apparently, Snowden wasn’t one of them.

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Regardless of whether Snowden used any of the widely-available countermeasures to fool the examiner or fool the machine, his ability to beat the polygraph resulted in a dearth of national security secrets being exposed. That’s never good for the country.

In my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I reveal never-before-published information about the polygraph and, most importantly, about details of a “turf war” between polygraph loyalists and all challengers to their century-old technology that has been raging silently for more than 40 years.

In addition, I examine how both technologies have performed in combat zones and other hotspots around the world, and I interview people who’ve used both technologies to interrogate detainees at Guantanamo Bay, members of Saddam Hussein‘s inner circle (a.k.a., “The Deck of Cards”) and enemy combatants on battlefields around the world.

Most importantly, I connect the dots between three memos — including one issued by Clapper in 2007 while he was serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence — and hundreds of American casualties resulting from “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks waged by so-called Afghan “allies” wearing the uniforms of their country.

Of course, there’s much more to THE CLAPPER MEMO — so much so, in fact, that the book has already garnered some big-name endorsements. To learn more, though, you’ll have to order a copy, available in paperback and ebook versions, at Amazon.

Wrong Person Goes to Prison for Eight Years After Polygraph Exam

Posted on June 17, 2013 by

According to a Chicago Tribune report dated June 18, 2013, Chicago cops elicited a false confession out of Nicole Harris– that she killed her young son — during a 27-hour interrogation that included a polygraph exam. As a result, the young mother, now 31, spent eight years behind bars before the justice system figured out that actual physical evidence proved her false confession impossible.

Incredibly, the polygraph technology that played such a key role in sending this woman to prison for a crime she did not commit is the same technology Department of Defense officials have made their department’s only authorized credibility assessment tool.

In fact, DoD officials have issued no fewer than three times during the past decade to drive home the point that the polygraph is the only credibility assessment tool to be used by DoD agencies. Nothing else!

Because the first memo I came across during an exhaustive four-year investigation was issued by James R. Clapper Jr., the man now serving as Director of National Intelligence (i.e., our nation’s top intelligence official), I thought his name deserved a spot in the title of my latest book, THE CLAPPER MEMO.

Why did Clapper, then serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, issue the memo?

Why is DoD so in love with the polygraph?

For the answers to the questions above and others, you’ll have to read THE CLAPPER MEMO. After you read it, I hope you’ll demand that your elected officials in the nation’s capitol reverse DoD’s ban on this non-polygraph technology.

Should Nation’s Top Intelligence Official Be Impeached for Lying?

Posted on June 16, 2013 by

In an op-ed June 10, writer Derek Khanna compares Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr.’s testimony under oath to that of President Bill Clinton almost 15 years earlier:

President Bill Clinton

Lying to a Grand Jury was the grounds for President Clinton’s impeachment; and that was lying to a grand jury, not lying to Congress when Congress is the relevant oversight branch. Furthermore, lying to Congress while Congress is performing oversight impedes a Congressional inquiry and investigation; Clinton’s lying to a Grand Jury did not impede Congressional functioning. This may be a poor example, because many disagreed with Clinton’s impeachment. The point is only that Clapper’s statement rises to or even exceeds previous standards for impeachment. (Impeachment is the House essentially “indicting” an Executive official which would require the Senate to convict for ultimate removal.)

James R. Clapper Jr.

In my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I call out DNI Clapper, the nation’s top intelligence official, for an action he took six years ago while he was serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. In short, I connect the dots between a memo issued by Clapper and hundreds of American casualties resulting from “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks waged by so-called Afghan “allies” wearing the uniforms of their country.

By the time you finish reading THE CLAPPER MEMO, you’ll understand how, if not for that memo and similar actions taken by DoD officials, hundreds of American and coalition warfighters might have avoided being killed or wounded in Afghanistan.

Of course, there’s much, much more to the story. For the rest of the details, however, you’ll have to Order a Copy of THE CLAPPER MEMO!

Countermeasures Beat Potential Polygraph Replacement, But Cannot Defeat Proven Alternative

Posted on June 14, 2013 by

During an exhaustive four-year investigation into credibility assessment and deception-detection tools — sometimes erroneously referred to as “lie detectors” — I discovered that so-called “subject-matter experts” in that field are not always right.

Several experts I encountered en route to publishing my latest book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, told me the polygraph, while not perfect, remains the best credibility assessment tool available at the present time.

Often, they would point to a handful of government-funded research studies as the bases for making less-than-complimentary statements about other credibility assessment technologies competing with the polygraph.

Some went so far as to point out that future technologies would soon replace the polygraph as the investigative tool of choice for law enforcement and military applications. The future technology mentioned most often was Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging — or fMRI.

According to the November 2010 study, Lying in the scanner: Covert countermeasures disrupt deception detection by functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI appears to be even less worthy than polygraph when it comes to deception detection accuracy. From the abstract of the study, this summary speaks volumes:

…in single participants, deception detection accuracy was 100% without countermeasures, using activation in ventrolateral and medial prefrontal cortices, but fell to 33% with countermeasures. These findings show that fMRI-based deception detection measures can be vulnerable to countermeasures, calling for caution before applying these methods to real-world situations.

In other words, fMRI works well until one applies countermeasures, and then it only works about one-third of the time; therefore, it appears that those in the polygraph countermeasures business – for which a virtual cottage industry exists — will merely have to replace a few words and publish new marketing materials if fMRI becomes the standard to replace the polygraph.

Is there an alternative to polygraph and fMRI? Yes, there is.

Inside the pages of THE CLAPPER MEMO, I reveal what it is, how it works, and how it has performed exceptionally in places around the world — including Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Kuwait, Mexico and Qatar, just to name a few — and from a sampling of the more than 1,800 U.S. law enforcement agencies now using it.

I offer insider information about how this non-polygraph technology delivers highly-accurate results without ever yielding the “inconclusive” or “no opinion” results so common with polygraph exams.

I disclose how I stumbled upon a “turf war” that’s been raging silently for more than 40 years between polygraph loyalists and all challengers to their century-old technology — including the non-polygraph alternative.

Most unfortunately, I share details of how that turf war has resulted in Department of Defense officials banning the use of all non-polygraph technologies. As a direct result, hundreds of American and Coalition Forces personnel have paid the price as casualties — victims of “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks conducted in Afghanistan by so-called “allies” wearing the uniforms of Afghan military, police and security agencies.

In short, I connect the dots have yet to see.

Every American should read THE CLAPPER MEMO and, afterward, demand their elected officials in the nation’s capitol reverse DoD’s ban on this non-polygraph technology.

THE CLAPPER MEMO has garnered strong endorsements from several high-profile Americans and is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

New Published Study Shows People CAN Fool the Polygraph

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

Findings of a recent study published in the United Kingdom show the polygraph can sometimes be fooled by individuals able to exercise one memorable countermeasure.

A news release on the University of Kent website — an excerpt of which appears below — offers details:

New research published by a team of international psychologists has shown that people can suppress incriminating memories and thereby avoid detection in brain activity guilt detection tests.

Such tests, which are commercially available in the USA and are used by law enforcement agencies in several countries, including Japan and India, are based on the logic that criminals will have specific memories of their crime stored in their brain. Once presented with reminders of their crime in a guilt detection test, it is assumed that their brain will automatically and uncontrollably recognise these details, with the test recording the brain’s ‘guilty’ response.

However, research by psychologists at the universities of Kent, Magdeburg and Cambridge, and the Medical Research Council, has shown that, contrary to this core assumption, some people can intentionally and voluntarily suppress unwanted memories – in other words, control their brain activity, thereby abolishing brain activity related to remembering. This was demonstrated through experiments in which people who conducted a mock crime were later tested on their crime recognition while having their electrical brain activity measured. Critically, when asked to suppress their crime memories, a significant proportion of people managed to reduce their brain’s recognition response and appear innocent.

This finding has major implications for brain activity guilt detection tests, among the most important being that those using memory detection tests should not assume that brain activity is outside voluntary control, and any conclusions drawn on the basis of these tests need to acknowledge that it might be possible for suspects to intentionally suppress their memories of a crime and evade detection.

In my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I reveal how a virtual cottage industry exists, pushing polygraph countermeasures that work. More importantly, however, I share the findings of a number of government-funded studies conducted in the United States that have been used as “ammunition” by polygraph loyalists seeking to maintain at all costs their century-old technology’s position as the federal government’s credibility assessment tool of choice.

In addition, I reveal how several high-level government officials — up to and including heads of cabinet-level agencies — have reacted when faced with the prospect of having to submit to polygraph exams as a condition of their employment. [Hint: They didn't like it.]

Finally, I share the findings of a study that was NOT funded by U.S. taxpayers that, lo and behold, resulted in findings diametrically opposite those funded and/or conducted by the Department of Justice and Department of Defense.

Not surprisingly, that study — which was published in a highly-respected scientific journal whose editors in Europe had no connections to federal government polygraph loyalists — examined the actual operational performance of one non-polygraph technology and found it delivered highly-accurate results without ever delivering “inconclusive” or “no opinion” results so common with polygraph exams.

Also not surprising is that the non-polygraph technology highlighted in the European journal has been banned by top DoD leaders no fewer than three times during the past decade. One of those who issued a ban was James R. Clapper Jr., the man now serving as Director of National Intelligence (i.e., our nation’s top intelligence official). Of course, I dug deeply into the nuts and bolts of those bans and share my findings in the book.

Why are the results of my investigation important now, more than ever? Because, in THE CLAPPER MEMO, I reveal how the aforementioned ban has contributed directly to hundreds of American and Coalition Forces casualties, the result of “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks conducted by so-called “allies” wearing the uniforms of Afghan military, police and security agencies.

THE CLAPPER MEMO has garnered strong endorsements from several high-profile Americans and is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

What Good Is Polygraph Exam That Yields Useless Results?

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

I read an interesting headline above an article published today in the Albuquerque (N.M.) Journal: Defense wins fight on polygraph results. In reality, nobody really won the fight.

According to the article, defense attorneys got what they wanted when Second Judicial District Judge Kenneth Martinez denied the prosecution’s motion to exclude testimony about a polygraph exam administered to Renée Ohlemacher in 2012, seven years after she surfaced as the prime suspect in the August 2005 killings of her parents, John and Bernadette Ohlemacher. But did anyone really win?

According to the article:

Detective Mark Johnson, the Albuquerque Police Department’s polygraph expert and a polygraph examiner with more than 20 years’ experience, testified at Wednesday’s hearing that the results of the polygraph given to Renée Ohlemacher were “inconclusive” or “no opinion.” That means no inference can be drawn, either that the subject passed or failed the test, he said.

In other words, investigators knew no more about the crime after administering the polygraph exam than they did before.

During an exhaustive four-year investigation into credibility assessment and truth-detection technologies — sometimes, erroneously referred to as “lie detectors” — I dedicated a substantial portion of my time to learning about the polygraph and its leading challengers. In my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I share what I uncovered.

Among my findings, I learned about a non-polygraph technology is now being used with great success by more than 1,800 law enforcement agencies across the United States, surpassing the number using polygraph.

In addition, I learned the same technology was used with great success to conduct interrogations of high-profile individuals — including detainees at Guantanamo Bay, members of Saddam Hussein‘s inner circle (a.k.a., “The Deck of Cards”) and hundreds of enemy combatants on battlefields in the Middle East and Southwest Asia — after polygraph exams had failed to produce useful results. Best of all, I talk with many of the people who conducted those interrogations and share never-before-published documents shared with me about their experiences.

Most disturbing, however, is that I stumbled upon a “turf war” that’s been raging silently for more than 40 years between polygraph loyalists and all challengers to their century-old technology. Most unfortunately, that turf war has resulted in Department of Defense officials banning the use of all non-polygraph technologies. As a direct result, hundreds of American and Coalition Forces personnel have paid the price as casualties — victims of “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks conducted by so-called “allies” wearing the uniforms of Afghan military, police and security agencies.

Every American should read THE CLAPPER MEMO and, afterward, demand their elected officials reverse the ban on non-polygraph technology.

THE CLAPPER MEMO has garnered strong endorsements from several high-profile Americans and is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

UPDATE 6/19/2013 at 10:30 a.m. Central: The KRQE video below provides more detail about the case discussed above and how polygraph exam results are stalling the justice system.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

Congressman: ‘Mr. Clapper should resign immediately’

Posted on June 13, 2013 by

In a Facebook status update Wednesday morning, Libertarian U.S. Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan called upon Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. to resign after willfully making false statements to Congress while under oath.

“It now appears clear that the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, lied under oath to Congress and the American people,” Representative Amash wrote. “Members of Congress can’t make informed decisions on intelligence issues when the head of the intelligence community willfully makes false statements. Perjury is a serious crime. Mr. Clapper should resign immediately.”

In my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I do not accuse DNI Clapper of lying about the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance, data collection or any other activities. Instead, I connect the dots between a memo Clapper issued in 2007 and hundreds of American and Coalition Forces casualties resulting from “Green-on-Blue” (a.k.a., “Insider”) attacks waged by so-called Afghan “allies” wearing the uniforms of their country.

The culmination of an exhaustive four-year investigation, THE CLAPPER MEMO reveals never-before-published details about an unconventional war that’s been raging silently for more than 40 years, shows no signs of easing, and impacts Americans around the world.

The book, which has garnered endorsements from several high-profile Americans, is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

I Paid Attention to Reporter Before He Broke NSA Story

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

Published in The Guardian last week, reporter Glenn Greenwald’s exclusive report about the National Security Agency’s domestic surveillance and data collection scandal will, perhaps, go down in history as the biggest story of his journalistic lifetime. It was, however, Greenwald’s work many years earlier that caught my attention.

In my new book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I dedicate an entire chapter to dissecting a slanted news report spearheaded by former ABC News Chief Investigative Correspondent Brian Ross and broadcast March 30, 2006, during a segment of the network’s Primetime program.

I not only point out how wrong Ross was in his reporting about an investigative technology that competes with polygraph but is banned for use by Department of Defense, but I also highlight some of Greenwald’s work that has been critical of Ross. Specifically, I point readers to a Salon.com article published April 9, 2007, under the headline, “The unresolved story of ABC News’ false Saddam anthrax report.”

Below is an excerpt from Chapter 14 of THE CLAPPER MEMO:

Writing for Salon.com, Glenn Greenwald devoted much time and attention to coverage of news reports by Ross about an alleged link between post-9/11 Anthrax attacks in the United States and Iraq.

At one of the most critical times in American history, the weeks following the 9/11 and anthrax attacks, Greenwald wrote in an April 2007 article, ABC News and Brian Ross published multiple, highly inflammatory reports, aggressively linking Iraq to the anthrax attacks, which turned out to be completely false.

It has yet to be proven whether or not Greenwald has been spot-on when it comes to the NSA scandal, but I can tell you he was spot-on when it came to Ross.

Of course, that’s just a snippet of what appears in THE CLAPPER MEMO, the product of an exhaustive four-year investigation in which I connect the dots between three DoD memos — including one issued by James R. Clapper Jr. before he became Director of National Intelligence (i.e., our nation’s top intelligence official) — and hundreds of American and Coalition Forces casualties resulting from “Green-on-Blue” or “Insider” attacks in Afghanistan.

I hope you’ll buy it and read it soon.

THE CLAPPER MEMO is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

WARNING: Your blood will boil with anger when you read THE CLAPPER MEMO.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

DNI Clapper Needs to Look in Mirror Before Calling Anyone Else’s Actions ‘Reckless’

Posted on June 12, 2013 by

Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper Jr. response to Edward Snowden‘s release to reporters of intimate details about the Intelligence Community’s widespread surveillance of American citizens and collection of their private data seems disingenuous at best. Why do I say this? Because I’ve been on his trail for several years.

James R Clapper Jr.

Four days ago, DNI Clapper issued the following statement on the collection of intelligence pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act:

Over the last week we have seen reckless disclosures of intelligence community measures used to keep Americans safe. In a rush to publish, media outlets have not given the full context–including the extent to which these programs are overseen by all three branches of government–to these effective tools.

In particular, the surveillance activities published in The Guardian and The Washington Post are lawful and conducted under authorities widely known and discussed, and fully debated and authorized by Congress. Their purpose is to obtain foreign intelligence information, including information necessary to thwart terrorist and cyber attacks against the United States and its allies.

Our ability to discuss these activities is limited by our need to protect intelligence sources and methods. Disclosing information about the specific methods the government uses to collect communications can obviously give our enemies a “playbook” of how to avoid detection. Nonetheless, Section 702 has proven vital to keeping the nation and our allies safe. It continues to be one of our most important tools for the protection of the nation’s security.

However, there are significant misimpressions that have resulted from the recent articles. Not all the inaccuracies can be corrected without further revealing classified information. I have, however, declassified for release the attached details about the recent unauthorized disclosures in hope that it will help dispel some of the myths and add necessary context to what has been published.

James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence

I find it fascinating how DNI Clapper used the phrase, “reckless disclosures,” to describe the actions of Snowden, the 29-year-old who claims to have released the blockbuster details about the National Security Agency’s PRISM program. At the same time, I find it disingenuous for the nation’s top intelligence official to describe anyone’s actions as “reckless” without also looking in the mirror and telling himself the same thing.

During the early stages of an exhaustive investigation that culminated four years later in publication of my recently-released book, THE CLAPPER MEMO, I came upon a memo issued by Clapper while he was serving as Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence. That memo served as the first official indication that I was on the trail of a scandal that would lead my investigation all the way to Afghanistan.

By the time I finished my investigation, I was able to connect the dots between the memo Clapper issued in 2007 and hundreds of American and Coalition Forces casualties resulting from “Green-on-Blue” (a.k.a., “Insider”) attacks waged by so-called Afghan “allies” wearing the uniforms of their country. Without giving away “the farm,” I can tell you that my findings will, without a doubt, make your blood boil.

After reading the book, one high-profile American offered his endorsement, stating that it “represents perhaps the most thorough investigative reporting” he has encountered in years before adding later, “This is how it’s done!” Other high-profile Americans offered endorsements as well. You can read them here.

By the time you finish reading THE CLAPPER MEMO, you’ll understand how, if not for the actions of several current and former high-ranking DoD officials, including Clapper, hundreds of American and Coalition Forces warfighters might have avoided being killed or wounded in Afghanistan.

THE CLAPPER MEMO is available in paperback and ebook versions at Amazon.

Bob McCarty is the author of Three Days In August and THE CLAPPER MEMO. To learn more about either book or to place an order, click on the graphic above.

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Connecting the dots…

Rand Paul Calls for Nation’s Top Intelligence Official to Resign

Should Nation’s Top Intelligence Official Be Impeached for Lying?

DNI Clapper Needs to Look in Mirror Before Calling Anyone Else’s Actions ‘Reckless’

Polygraph Exams Should Have Caught Edward Snowden

Wrong Person Goes to Prison for Eight Years After Polygraph Exam

Should Nation’s Top Intelligence Official Be Impeached for Lying?

Countermeasures Beat Potential Polygraph Replacement, But Cannot Defeat Proven Alternative

New Published Study Shows People CAN Fool the Polygraph

What Good Is Polygraph Exam That Yields Useless Results?

Congressman: ‘Mr. Clapper should resign immediately’

I Paid Attention to Reporter Before He Broke NSA Story

DNI Clapper Needs to Look in Mirror Before Calling Anyone Else’s Actions ‘Reckless’