James Clapper Under Fire For Denying Knowledge of Massive NSA Surveillance Operation
To a Senate Intelligence Committee, making the information's secret status irrelevant to the dodge
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper is under fire for statements he made before Congress that suggested he had no knowledge about federal government programs that collected data on millions of Americans' phone calls and Internet activities.
In March, Clapper said at a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that he was not aware that the National Security Agency was involved in such large-scale efforts.
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"Clapper recanted and said: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could, inadvertently perhaps, collect -- but not wittingly."
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Yeah, all that data just fell out of the computer! We don't know how it got there.
"I tripped and fell onto my office keyboard and wrote up the protocol and then stumbled backwards onto my underlings which inadvertently caused them to construct a massive spying program. Then as I staggered to my feet, I tripped and fell on a Senator, causing him to finance the construction of a top secret data storage center in Utah. So you see, none of this was wittingly done."