NSA Director is caught lying 14 times under oath under questioning by Hank Johnson (D-Georgia)

[TakeALeftTurn]

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We know the NSA is routinely collecting ALL emails from American citizens as well as a large number of electronic transactions as well as other data.

Here is the wired article that Hank Johnson refers to.
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter/all/1

There is plenty of other evidence from whistle blowers and various newspaper articles that the NSA Director was lying.
E.G. William Binney and Thomas Drake - as well as the claims of Edward Snowden.

See my previous article on the details of the NSA Mass Surveillance programs with the links to the relevant articles.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022962685

[dkf]

1. Oh they are never lies..just the least untruthful thing he is allowed to say.

Boy that works for everything! State secrets is a get out of jail free card.

[HooptieWagon]

2. If everything they're doing is legal...

then why are they lying about it? People lie under oath to cover up crimes more serious than the perjury. So, what crimes are Clapper, et al, covering up?

[Luminous Animal]

3. That's okay. It's good Democratic govt. lying not evil Republican govt. lying.

[peacebird]

4. Exactly. And when Bush III (or similar) gets elected if this is still legal... Well it SUCKS under O

So imagine....

[sabrina 1]

5. I love Hank Johnson and he has had many concerns about the Private Corps running our government

now. He demanded an investigation into HB Gary's practices where the emails leaked by Anonymous showed they were writing contracts maybe with help from the FBI btw, part of which including 'smearing liberal bloggers like Glenn Greenwald'.

I don't know what happened to that investigation but I am glad to see some of our Democrats like Wyden and Grayson and Udall among others standing up to these abuses.

Thanks for the OP. Maybe we will finally get rid of these Bush policies now that they are being exposed thanks so the courageous whistle blowers, like Drake, Binney, Manning, and now Snowden.

[woo me with science]

6. K&R

[kenny blankenship]

7. 14 counts of perjury at 5 years apiece! OH MY!

That might be sufficient inducement to finally start telling the truth about who knows what about the conspiracy against the Constitutional rights of 310 million US citizens.

[LittleBlue]

8. If this were you or me, we'd be in a cell like Manning

But since he's essentially part of the government 1%, he'll get away with it. I doubt anyone will say anything.

This country is becoming a banana republic. Elites get away with everything, only the 99% are subject to the law.

[Laelth]

9. A number of people criticize the Honorable Hank Johnson.

He's occasionally been accused of not being the sharpest crayon in the box, but who cares? I like the way he votes, and he's much better than the R Congressmen that my state has, tragically, installed in the House.

Here's to Mr. Johnson.

-Laelth