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2019-03-06 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Clapper: ‘I Didn't Lie' to Congress About NSA Spying ‐ ‘I Just Simply Didn't Understand' the Question

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[Breitbart] Tuesday on CNN’s "New Day," host John Berman asked former National Intelligence Director James Clapper about The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald saying he lied to Congress about the NSA program used to spy on Americans’ phone records.

Clapper denied lying to Congress in 2013, explaining he "simply just didn’t understand the question" he was asked.

"[T]he original thought behind this, and this program was put in place as a direct result of 9/11, and the point was to be able to track quickly a foreign communicant talking to somebody in this country who may have been plotting a terrorist plot, and was put in place during the Bush administration for that reason. I always regarded it as kind of a safeguard or insurance policy so that if the need came up you’d have this to refer to," Clapper told Berman.

"As far as the comment, the allegation about my lying: I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake and I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about," he added. "I thought of another surveillance program, Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act when I was being asked about Section 215 of the Patriot Act at the time. I just didn’t understand that."

If he was not intelligent enough to understand what he was being asked, he absolutely had no business accepting the assignment to head the NSA. And he certainly is not intelligent enough to be worth listening to about President Trump.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 It was Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer that said, "Clapper's eye would glaze over"

Posted by Woodrow 2019-03-06 05:20|| 2019-03-06 05:20|| Front Page Top

#2 Whoopsie! How unfortunate. The NSA was illegally spying on us and its director, when asked about it, misunderstood the question. Nothing to see here, no deep state corruption.

Posted by Herb McCoy 2019-03-06 06:33|| 2019-03-06 06:33|| Front Page Top

#3 So instead of dishonest, he's incompetent?
(I'm thinking he's both.)

Posted by ed in texas 2019-03-06 07:28|| 2019-03-06 07:28|| Front Page Top

#4 That's strange. I understood the question perfectly well.

Posted by gorb 2019-03-06 08:28|| 2019-03-06 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 That's strange. I understood the question perfectly well.

It was the Clapper response that most of us could not 'understand'.

Posted by Besoeker 2019-03-06 08:30|| 2019-03-06 08:30|| Front Page Top

#6 ^"Not spying, spying"?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2019-03-06 08:32|| 2019-03-06 08:32|| Front Page Top

#7 He's such an intelligent guy he was Director of National Intelligence.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-03-06 11:38|| 2019-03-06 11:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Doesn't matter. There will be immunity for witnesses, attorney-client privilege, cloth for wiping servers etc. All provided by the deep state on an 'as needed' basis.

Some animals are more equal.

Posted by Elmerert Hupens2660 2019-03-06 14:37|| 2019-03-06 14:37|| Front Page Top

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