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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFive Months After: President Obama tacitly condones lying to Congress
At time index 6:37, Senator Wyden asks DNI Clapper the question to which DNI Clapper lied in response:
Fire James Clapper
The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about?
By Fred Kaplan | Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at 12:44 PM
If President Obama really does welcome a debate about the scope of the U.S. surveillance program, a good first step would be to fire Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Back at an open congressional hearing on March 12, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper, Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? Clapper replied, No sir not wittingly. As we all now know, he was lying.
We also now know that Clapper knew he was lying. In an interview with NBCs Andrea Mitchell that aired this past Sunday, Clapper was asked why he answered Wyden the way he did. He replied:
I thought, though in retrospect, I was asked [a] when are you going to stop beating your wife kind of question, which is not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, No.
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html
The Director of National Intelligence lied to Congress about NSA surveillance. What else will he lie about?
By Fred Kaplan | Posted Tuesday, June 11, 2013, at 12:44 PM
If President Obama really does welcome a debate about the scope of the U.S. surveillance program, a good first step would be to fire Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Back at an open congressional hearing on March 12, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper, Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans? Clapper replied, No sir not wittingly. As we all now know, he was lying.
We also now know that Clapper knew he was lying. In an interview with NBCs Andrea Mitchell that aired this past Sunday, Clapper was asked why he answered Wyden the way he did. He replied:
I thought, though in retrospect, I was asked [a] when are you going to stop beating your wife kind of question, which is not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no. So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, No.
...
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/war_stories/2013/06/fire_dni_james_clapper_he_lied_to_congress_about_nsa_surveillance.html
DNI Clapper lied to Congress in mid-March and somehow in mid-August still holds the position of DNI: this essentially vitiates the theory that President Obama wants any sort of honest debate at all.
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Five Months After: President Obama tacitly condones lying to Congress (Original Post)
xocet
Aug 2013
OP
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)1. Clapper was appointed by Dubya, he's more than likely not a liberal
Hence, unlike Shirley Sherrod who was fired over someone else's lie by email on the side of the road, his job is safe.
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)2. Clapper whould have been ordered to resign. Done. He lied. nt