{"id":186606,"date":"2013-12-08T22:11:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T03:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/08\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-james-sensenbrenner\/"},"modified":"2013-12-08T22:11:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T03:11:00","slug":"shoot-me-i-agree-with-james-sensenbrenner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2013\/12\/08\/shoot-me-i-agree-with-james-sensenbrenner\/","title":{"rendered":"Shoot Me I Agree with James Sensenbrenner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He is calling for <a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/patriot-act-author-james-clapper-should-be-prosecuted\">James Clapper to be prosecuted for lying to Congress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the original author of the Patriot Act, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be prosecuted for lying to Congress.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought to be fired and prosecuted for it,&#8221; the Wisconsin Republican said in an interview with The Hill.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">He said the Justice Department should prosecute Clapper for giving false testimony during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing in March.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">During that hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper whether the National Security Agency (NSA) collects data on millions of Americans. Clapper insisted that the NSA does not \u2014 or at least does &#8220;not wittingly&#8221; \u2014 collect information on Americans in bulk. <\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">After documents leaked by Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA collects records on virtually all U.S. phone calls, Clapper apologized for the misleading comment.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">The intelligence director said he tried to give the &#8220;least untruthful&#8221; answer he could without revealing classified information.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Sensenbrenner said that explanation doesn\u2019t hold water and argued the courts and Congress depend on accurate testimony to do their jobs.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">&#8220;The only way laws are effective is if they&#8217;re enforced,&#8221; Sensenbrenner said. &#8220;If it&#8217;s a criminal offense \u2014 and I believe Mr. Clapper has committed a criminal offense \u2014 then the Justice Department ought to do its job.&#8221;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He&#8217;s right.<\/p>\n<p>This was clearly a case of perjury, particularly since he got the questions in advance as well as being given the opportunity to clarify.<\/p>\n<p>Even if there is not a case for his being prosecuted (there is), his behavior clearly justifies the removal of his security clearance.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not going to happen under this administration, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He is calling for James Clapper to be prosecuted for lying to Congress: Rep. James Sensenbrenner Jr., the original author of the Patriot Act, says Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be prosecuted for lying to Congress.&#8220;Lying to Congress is a federal offense, and Clapper ought to be fired and prosecuted for it,&#8221; the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[998,970,1052,1051,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-hypocrisy","category-secrecy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}