James Clapper lied before Congress. We know this.
James Clapper is a lying liar who refused to tell the truth about the unconstitutional spying that the NSA performs on innocent Americans.
Unless Clapper presents EVIDENCE to support his claims, there is no reason to believe him, on absolutely anything.
Yes, he is a former DNI, a fucking DISGRACED former DNI. Never, ever forget that.
Look at what some past diaries published on Daily Kos have to say about Clapper:
77 recs —It depends on the definition of 'collect'
Director of National Intelligence James Clapper has had some explaining to do now that the NSA wiretapping program has been exposed and declassified and totally admitted to by no less than President Obama. Here's what he told Sen. Ron Wyden, under oath, about that program just a few short months ago.
Wyden: [...] So, what I wanted to see is if you could give me a yes or now 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, not wittingly.
Now, most people would look at that exchange, in light of recent revelations, and see a bold-faced lie. No, Clapper assures us. He didn't lie. He was asked an unfair question and it's all in the semantics.
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. [...]
On Sunday, Clapper elaborated: "This has to do with of course somewhat of a semantic, perhaps some would say too cute by half. But it is—there are honest differences on the semantics of what—when someone says 'collection' to me, that has a specific meaning, which may have a different meaning to him."
254 recs —The NSA - Hiding a Shadow Government Behind a Haystack, "To Keep Us Safe"
The enormous service that a certain whistleblower has provided to Americans and the world at large, is becoming clear even in the face of shrill cries of "traitor" and histrionic accusations of "aiding the enemy."
That certain whistleblower (who will not be named, in hopes of avoiding comments about personalities rather than revelations) has shone a light on a shadow government, a set of parallel institutions that operate without democratic controls. It is a government-corporate warren of institutions that uses secrecy and the application of large amounts of cash to avoid democratic control by the people and has allied with corporate chieftains and hijacked large corporations, defying the "discipline of the market" and the democratic controls of shareholders and chartering states.
Forgot to add Clapper’s views on Iraq’s mythical WMD’s that were never ever found:
President Obama's nomination of Pentagon intelligence chief James Clapper as intelligence czar could reignite the Bush-era debate over how and why agencies overstated Saddam Hussein's weapons-of-mass-destruction arsenal before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq. Clapper played an important role in that estimate; from 2001 to 2006 he headed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon unit responsible for interpreting spy-satellite photos and other technically gathered intelligence like air particles and soil samples. And now the conservative Washington Times is reviving the argument, reporting that in Clapper’s judgment the Iraqi dictator evaded the post-invasion WMD search by hiding at least part of the arsenal across the border in shortly before the invasion.
The idea that Saddam hid his WMD stockpiles and programs by secretly shipping them to Syria has been popular for years among some of the most avid supporters of George W. Bush's decision to invade Iraq. Nevertheless, lengthy and expensive investigations by the Iraq Survey Group, a special team set up by Bush to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, found only traces of them.