Clapper willfully and knowingly broke the law when he lied to Congress in an attempt to hide the truth about the NSA’s domestic data-collection from the American public.
At a Congressional hearing in March, Clapper was asked:
“Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?”
Clapper answered:
“No sir…not wittingly.”
That was a lie.
Clapper had advance notice that the question was going to be asked and he declined a later offer to correct his statement.
If Clapper is not prosecuted, let alone investigated, for lying to Congress, it will make a mockery of our American rule of law and show that the powerful can lie and break the law with impunity.
We the People do not accept this.