Wyden's former deputy chief of staff doubts Clapper decided to lie unilaterally.

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34. I have a little inside baseball story to share will you.

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Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was a Demo apparachnik in Leon Panneta's Congressional District. Leon had a reputation for being really, really liberal and had impeccable an anti-war credentials, and generally regarded as something of a progressive Saint in those days.

Well, anyway, one day I met with Leon in his District Office and among other things was excited to share a newly-patented process for creating hydrogen using sunlight invented by a University of CA professor I had met. I asked Leon if there was any way he could help this seemingly cheap alternative energy process along on one of his committees, and he just asked me a couple questions:

Who is the Majority Leader and What State is he from?

I responded it was Jim Wright from Texas.

He said, does that answer your question?

That was a sobering lesson about the nature of government, the Democratic Party, and Democratic liberals. After Mr. Panetta was made CIA chief, and I later learned that Leon had been one of the backers of the Syrian regime change within the Administration, I was saddened but not surprised.