TURNING ON THEIR OWN: James Clapper Tells CNN It Was Obama Who Ordered Trump-Russia Hoax There needs to be just a bit of reading between the lines here but make no mistake, what James Clapper is doing here is sending out a warning flare that if he’s going down there will be a lot of others he intends to take with him—including a certain former President of the United States. (Really pay attention to how much he emphasizes Obama’s personal involvement in the process from beginning to end.) I first saw this on 8chan.