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To: MNDude
Dan Bongino said that Clapper out and out lied at a hearing back in 2013 when he was asked if data as being collected on a large scale without warrants on unknowing citizens.

He said no.

From The Washington Examiner:
"...Clapper, director of national intelligence from 2010 to 2017, testified during a March 2013 Senate Intelligence Committee hearing that the NSA was "not wittingly” collecting “any type of data at all” on millions of Americans. Months later, former NSA contractor Edward Snowden revealed secret court orders forced phone companies to turn over all U.S. call records on an “ongoing, daily basis.” In an apology letter, Clapper wrote that he gave a “clearly erroneous” answer because he “simply didn’t think of” the call-record collection. But in an MSNBC interview he offered a different explanation, saying he gave the “least untruthful” answer because he was “asked a, ‘When are you going to stop beating your wife?’ kind of question, meaning not answerable necessarily by a simple yes or no..."

Despicable. And now the statute of limitations has expired. Damn these people.

27 posted on 03/12/2018 6:58:23 PM PDT by rlmorel (No tagline available right now. Come back later.)
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To: rlmorel

Has it? I am not a lawyer, but if it has expired perhaps they could try to toll the statute under color of authority.


37 posted on 03/12/2018 8:19:04 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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To: rlmorel

Not so quick - Sessions has (at least) 27 leak investigations, this apparently being one. Clapper is on record now saying how terrible this behavior was! And the investigation reportedly revealed it was him! The other charges, while apparent to “us”, would require evidence that is not readily available and difficult / precarious to disclose - the leak, on the other hand, appears pretty well cut & comes with his own statements about its severity.


40 posted on 03/12/2018 8:28:45 PM PDT by Steven W.
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