James Clapper Apologized For Misinforming The Congress — Transcript

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1. 0:00director of national intelligence james
2. 0:02clapper has apologized for telling
3. 0:04congress the national security agency
4. 0:06doesn't gather data on millions of
5. 0:08americans
6. 0:09the apology comes after former nsa
7. 0:12contractor edward snowden gave top
8. 0:14secret information to newspapers that
9. 0:16last month published stories about the
10. 0:18federal government collecting the data
11. 0:20from phone calls and such internet
12. 0:21communications as emails
13. 0:24clapper apologized in a letter to senate
14. 0:26intelligence committee chairwoman dianne
15. 0:28feinstein that was posted tuesday on the
16. 0:30website of clapper's office
17. 0:33clapper said in the june 21st letter
18. 0:35that his answer was clearly erroneous
19. 0:38americans have long known the united
20. 0:40states implemented surveillance programs
21. 0:42under the patriot act in the wake of 9
22. 0:4511 with the goal of preventing more
23. 0:47terror attacks and that the programmes
24. 0:49targeted foreign and overseas suspects
25. 0:52however many americans seem stunned at
26. 0:55the apparent extent of the programmes
27. 0:57and that the broad data collection
28. 0:58included basic details on americans
29. 1:01phone records
30. 1:02oregon democratic senior
31. 1:05ron wyden asked clapper at a march 12
32. 1:07congressional hearing whether the nsa
33. 1:09collects any type of data at all on
34. 1:11millions of hundreds of millions of
35. 1:13americas
36. 1:14widen asked because clapper suggested
37. 1:16publicly months earlier that stories
38. 1:18about the nsa keeping dossiers on
39. 1:21millions of americans were completely
40. 1:23false
41. 1:24clapper told wyden no sir it does not
42. 1:28when asked for clarification he said not
43. 1:31wittingly
44. 1:32after the latest stories appeared to
45. 1:34reveal otherwise clapper said he gave
46. 1:36the least untruthful answer possible
47. 1:39clapper said in the letter to feinstein
48. 1:41that when answering he was confounded by
49. 1:43the word dossier and challenged by
50. 1:45trying to protect classified information
51. 1:48he also said that when answering wyden
52. 1:51he was focused on whether the u.s
53. 1:52collected the content of phone and email
54. 1:55conversations and not so-called metadata
55. 1:58which essentially is phone numbers email
56. 2:00addresses dates and times
57. 2:03he wrote that he simply didn't think of
58. 2:05the pertinent section of the patriot act
59. 2:07under which that information can be
60. 2:09collected
61. 2:10thus my response was clearly erroneous
62. 2:13for which i apologize clapper said to
63. 2:16feinstein in the letter
64. 2:18snowden's father lon
65. 2:20meanwhile chastised clapper for his
66. 2:23answers in an open letter snowden sent
67. 2:25tuesday to his son
68. 2:27we leave it to the american people to
69. 2:28decide whether you or director clapper
70. 2:30is the superior patriot snowden wrote in
71. 2:33the letter to his son