Clapper, James Center for a New American Security

March 16, 2018

Clapper, James

Center for a New American Security

1152 15^th St NW #950

Washington, DC 20005

Clapper, James,

I love eponyms. “Does she ‘Monica’?” “Nobody was ‘Borked’ like Bork was ‘Borked’, remember?”

Now comes “Clapper”.

Hindsight is always 20/20 but didn’t we have 3 Presidents, and would you believe they were all Democrats, who told the American people the same “Clapper 3 times in 48 years? “I will not send American boys to fight in foreign wars” was a big “Clapper” in 1916, in 1940, and yet again in 1964. 

A seasoned waiter, with the discipline not to turn his head when he drops the soup on someone’s lap, learned from Wilson, from Roosevelt, and from Johnson. The bill was closed out by some 650,000 American toe-tagged grunts. Compared to that your  “Clapper” is small potatoes.

Yet there is that nagging voice from the past, not quite shouting, “Character is destiny”.

I am sure that at some time you were made aware of, and as subsequent actions have shown, have chosen not to live by the following truism.

“An officer will neither lie, cheat, nor will he steal.

He will not tolerate that in others.”

In a world of not quite sharp angles, in a world filled with muted colors, it is simple and direct.

Do you remember when Thomas More would not take the oath because “A man upon oath holds his soul in his hands as if it were water. He opens his fingers at his own peril”? It may take a generation or 2 but school children will say that George Washington could not tell a Clapper. Immortality is yours and you got it the old-fashioned way: You earned it!

Judas, Benedict Arnold, Quisling, Clapper

A small but distinguished pantheon.

Accordingly, and as Committee Chairman, I waive the normal waiting period and

proclaim you

SMARMY BASTARD OF THE YEAR

Wear your honors well.

“Nothing lost save honor”

Kevin Smith