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In reply to the discussion: Clapper appears to have perjured himself. [View all]suffragette
(12,232 posts)24. Your example shows Clapper trying to change the answer he gave
His answer at the hearing is on video:
Clapper responded: "No, sir." When Wyden followed up by asking, "It does not?" Clapper said: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collectbut not wittingly."
In his interview with the National Journal, he attempts to revise that to:
"What I said was, the NSA does not voyeuristically pore through U.S. citizens' e-mails. I stand by that," Clapper told National Journal in a telephone interview.
As the article from the National Journal notes:
Clapper did not specify at the time that he was referring to e-mail.
Just a tad ironic that Clapper tried to say he gave a different answer (even using "what I said," rather than 'what I meant') when he said this at a recorded hearing and the video is available for review by the public (unlike say one of the secret hearings they hold).
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I have been getting lots of mileage out of "least untruthful" jokes in the last few days.
Poll_Blind
Jun 2013
#3
But, he probably doesn't have a girlfriend in Hawaii and is friendly with his neighbors.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#4
If you have a democratic republic with a constitution, this grows legs.
kenny blankenship
Jun 2013
#11
Was he under oath? Remember, during BushCo, some folks were allowed to testify to Congress
MADem
Jun 2013
#29
The current NSA phone records search is for April 25-July 19th. You cite a March hearing/testimony
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#17
What exactly do you think he is admitting to there? About a future program that wasnt happening yet?
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#43
The hearing was in March. The surveillance in the Snowden leak was April 25-July 19
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#46
Do you understand the difference between evidence and supposition? Because it's ironic that you
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#50
It is completly different, Pro. Would you care to explain why you think it is the same to
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2013
#41