And the parade of hand in the cookie-jar excuses continues ...
He just "forgot about the Patriotic Act" ... it happens!
Clapper: I gave 'erroneous' answer because I forgot about Patriot Act
Intelligence chief tries to explain false Senate testimony by saying he 'simply didn't think' of NSA efforts to collect phone data
by Spencer Ackerman, guardian.co.uk -- 2 July 2013
The most senior US intelligence official told a Senate oversight panel that he “simply didn’t think” of the National Security Agency’s efforts to collect the phone records of millions of Americans when he testified in March that it did “not wittingly” snoop on their communications.
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, made the comments in a letter to the Senate intelligence committee, released in full for the first time on Tuesday.
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In the full letter, Clapper attempted to explain the false testimony by saying that his recollection failed him. “I simply didn’t think of Section 215 of the Patriot Act,” he wrote to committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (Democrat, California) on 21 June, referring to the legal provision cited to justify the mass collection of Americans’ phone data, first disclosed by the Guardian.
Clapper is under intense pressure from legislators displeased by his March testimony to the Senate intelligence committee’s Ron Wyden (Democrat, Oregon) that the NSA did “not wittingly” collect, as Wyden put it, “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans.”
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Ooops!
'James Clapper wasn't taking a cookie, he was just unwittingly checking to see how many were left.'
"Besides, who's counting anyways? There's always more where those came from ...'
Well don't get mad, get Rallied ...
Rally against NSA, PRISM, Patriot Act planned July 4
Sun-News report -- 07/01/2013
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Las Cruces [NM] will join dozens of other communities in demanding 4th amendments rights under the U.S. Constitution be restored. If you have access to Facebook, you can get the details at www.facebook.com/events/343521685750187/
That FB page leads to this one:
Stand up for the Fourth Amendment on the 4th ...
What else do you got to do, beside count your cookies ...
Join a real 'Patriotic' Rally instead!