A Newsbusters report describes it with the following:
…“Clapper was actually the guy leaking information” to CNN about the presidential briefing on the Steele dossier that served as the pretext for the media feeding frenzy over possible Russian blackmail of Trump.
One can only laugh at the utter fraudulence of CNN: it pads its panels with government officials who leak to it, then presents them to its audience as “nonpartisan” experts commenting on the aftershocks of the very stories they leaked.
…Clapper denounced his own leak in a press release on January 11: “I expressed my profound dismay at the leaks that have been appearing in the press, and we both agreed that they are extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security.”
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So apparently the very thing Mr. Clapper described as ‘extremely corrosive and damaging to our national security’ (and highly illegal) was the very thing he was so repeatedly engaged in. To date, he hasn’t been punished. Just the opposite. Within months of resigning from his position at the NSA, James Clapper was getting paid a fat contributor contract by CNN – the news agency he is accused of leaking....