Clapper appears to have perjured himself.

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23. Clapper himself admits it!

"So I responded in what I thought was the most truthful or least most untruthful manner, by saying, 'No,'" Clapper said.

The programs that do sweep up such information were revealed last week by The Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers, and Clapper has since taken the unusual step of declassifying some of the previously top-secret details to help the administration mount a public defense of the surveillance as a necessary step to protect Americans.

One of the NSA programs gathers hundreds of millions of U.S. phone records to search for possible links to known terrorist targets abroad. The other allows the government to tap into nine U.S. Internet companies and gather all communications to detect suspicious behavior that begins overseas.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/us-no-plans-end-broad-surveillance-program