Some lawmakers reacted to the long-expected resignation announcement from Director of National Intelligence James Clapper on Thursday by wishing him an eventful retirement, featuring prosecution and possible prison time.
The passage of more than three years hasn’t cooled the insistence in certain quarters that Clapper face charges for an admittedly false statement to Congress in March 2013, when he responded, “No, sir" and "not wittingly” to a question about whether the National Security Agency was collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans.
About three months after making that claim, documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed the answer was untruthful and that the NSA was in fact collecting in bulk domestic call records, along with various internet communications.
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Has the statute of limitations run out on Holder for lying to Congress in his testimony?
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone really think that Clapper wasn't E.J Hoover'izing the lawmakers that might bring charges against him for secretly collecting data on Americans? He collected data on congressional members, as well. They will never bring charges against him for fear of what he has on them. Congress is corrupt. That includes members of both parties. The entire branch of government is a corrupt organization. You can bet they will not charge the top spy in America.
ReplyDeleteE. J Hoover the same as J. Edgar Hoover? LOL
ReplyDeleteShould have just said Hoover'izing....hard to remember, he's been dead so long. I wonder if they buried him in his favorite dress?
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