Just Wow – Latest Explanation For James Clapper Lying About ‘Essential’ NSA Spy Program: ‘He Forgot About It’

Editor’s Note: Really? He forgot? It’s like they aren’t even trying to come up with half-way believable lies anymore.

By now, one hopes, you’ve seen this video of James Clapper lying to Senator Ron Wyden and the American public while testifying before Congress in early 2013:

Here’s the key transcript:

Wyden: 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 wittingly.

This was a lie. Many people believed it was a lie at the time, but that was confirmed thanks to the documents leaked by Ed Snowden, who later claimed that seeing that bit of testimony helped convince him that he needed to go through with his plan to leak this information.

James Clapper, of course, is the Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of the various intelligence agencies basically report in to him. He’s still in that job, which many people argue is a complete travesty. He flat out lied to Congress and got away with it.

What’s been really odd is that the story as to why Clapper lied seems to keep changing…

(Read more at Tech Dirt)