Friday, June 7, 2013

Did Obama DIA Director James Clapper lie to Congress about NSA domestic spying?

Based on what we now know, the answer seems to be yes...



Via National Journal:
As we now know, the NSA has been collecting data on millions of domestic and international phone calls for some time now — since 2006, according to Dianne Feinstein. Maybe this bothers you; maybe it doesn’t. Feinstein insists the program is an essential part of “protecting America”; Congressman Mike Rogers says it has already been “used to stop a terrorist attack in the United States.”
But one person who doesn’t like the idea of the NSA spying on Americans is Oregon senator Ron Wyden. And at a hearing in March, he asked James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, a straightforward question: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Clapper’s answer? “No, sir … not wittingly
Keep reading…
The Obama administration is going for a Guinness record in the lying to Congress category...

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