Intelligence chief Clapper: I gave ‘least untruthful’ answer on U.S. spying
Source: Yahoo News
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is really struggling to explain why he told Congress in March (see video above) that the National Security Agency does not intentionally collect any kind of data on millions of Americans. His latest take: It's an unfair question, he said, like "When are you going to stop beating your wife?" And it seems to depend on the meaning of "collect."
"I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying 'no,'" Clapper told NBC News on Sunday.
Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/intel-chief-clapper-gave-least-untruthful-answer-u-164742798.html
Ah yes, "parsing" words... why does this seem so familiar?
Lying liar.
Senator Wyden questions Clapper on this:
Melinda
(5,465 posts)Wyden: "And this is for you, Director Clapper, again on the surveillance front. And I hope we can do this in just a yes or no answer, because I know Sen. Feinstein wants to move on.
"Last summer the NSA director was at a conference and he was asked a question about the NSA surveillance of Americans. He replied, and I quote here, '... the story that we have millions or hundreds of millions of dossiers on people is completely false.'
"The reason I'm asking the question is, having served on the committee now for a dozen years, I don't really know what a dossier is in this context. So what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
Clapper: "No, sir."
Wyden: "It does not."
Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."
Wyden: "All right. Thank you. I'll have additional questions to give you in writing on that point, but I thank you for the answer."
"Not wittingly". Really.
Lying liar lied under oath with a straight face. Looked right at Senator Wyden and lied, under oath.
Our government is betrayed.
Psephos
(8,032 posts)Indeed.
AnotherMcIntosh
(11,064 posts)Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Melinda
(5,465 posts)Right?
existentialist
(2,190 posts)Snowden?
Clapper?
Both?
Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)Dragonfli
(10,622 posts)because there really is no such as a "most truthful lie" or a "least truthful truth".
Is it an unfair question to ask, "when did you stop beating your wife" when you never stopped?
They never stopped re-issuing blanket "warrants" to intentionally collect every bit of data on every single American kept for them by at least Verizon if not all carriers.
To claim it is unfair to ask about your lies claiming you never struck your wife after reading a recent police report on your latest beating in a long string of them is understandable for a wife beater caught in the headlights - but they are still the lies of a lying liar that just got caught beating his wife. - that is the most truthful answer to your attempt to evade fair questions!!!
avaistheone1
(14,626 posts)k&r
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)to.
Ash_F
(5,861 posts)He sounds like one of the good ones.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)CanonRay
(14,119 posts)Least untruthfull...really?
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)MsPithy
(809 posts)the "least untruthful," answers to those who are supposed to be supervising them?
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
quakerboy
(13,921 posts)was he under oath? Did he lie? Will there be consequences?
Seems pretty simple to me.