The director of National Intelligence apologized in June
to the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee for lying during a
hearing, according to a letter published on the DNI website on Tuesday.
Director James Clapper appeared before the committee in
March, where Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked him specifically if NSA spies
on millions of Americans. Clapper answered, "No."
Since then, Edward Snowden reportedly leaked government
documents that unveiled a secretive government program that did
precisely what Wyden suggested in collecting meta data for cell phone
and internet records of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Clapper says the intricacy of Wyden's question – asking
for a clarification of "hundreds of millions of dossiers on people" –
combined with a need to preserve classified information prompted him to
give the wrong answer.http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/07/02/national-intelligence-director-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress
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