A bit of the exchange with the Director of National Intelligence that compelled Edward Snowden to break his silence:
Senator Ron Wyden, who is on the Senate Intelligence Committee and so knew the broad details of the NSA’s mass surveillance program, asked Clapper at a Congressional hearing: “Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Clapper answered precisely: “No sir.” Wyden was clearly taken aback and asked again: “It does not?” And Clapper was equally clear: “Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect – but not wittingly.”
In an NBC interview, Clapper attacked Senator Ron Wyden:
In retrospect, I was asked – ‘When are you going to stop beating your wife’ kind of question, which is meaning 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.
A real adult who says “the least untruthful manner”? This is what passes for a Director of Intelligence in modern Washington D.C.
James Clapper had a few other excuses to explain away his pseudo-deception, each one varying a little from the previous excuse. It painted a more truthful picture of the man then we could ever get from a Congressional hearing.
See the next page for James Clapper’s latest excuse
We can’t trust the administration.
Any official caught in a lie should be removed from office immediately. We the People will only accept Truth. We refuse to suffer the lies from people who make their living by riding on the back of their neighbors.
Liar, liar pants on fire; we are so screwed with the likes of this guy in charge.
we know him as the clap
Do you have any idea how many people you’re talking about; almost all in office would have to go.
Someone making their living at the expense of the people have an obligation to be forthright, honest, transparent, above any appearance of decietfulness. If it means all of them, so be it.
Lie say it ain’t so