mo4ch:>Clapper claims he ‘didn’t lie’ about NSA spying on Americans, but ‘didn’t understand’ the question | Mo4ch News

NSA director-turned-cable-news-pundit James Clapper is still insisting he wasn’t lying when he told a congressional panel the NSA wasn’t spying on American citizens – three months before Edward Snowden told everyone it was.“I didn’t lie, I made a big mistake. I just simply didn’t understand what I was being asked about,” Clapper told CNN’s New Day, marking the third time he’s changed his story regarding his notorious pre-Snowden testimony. He further explained he’d been thinking of another dubiously constitutional surveillance program – section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act – rather than section 215 of the Patriot Act, perhaps hoping the audience had forgotten the context of his response six years earlier.Asked in early 2013 whether the NSA had gathered “any type of data at all on millions of Americans,” Clapper responded “not wittingly.” Just a few months later, Snowden released his first explosive trove of documents exposing the NSA’s massive covert data collectio…