[dirtboy]

Clapper knew darn well. Look up his comment about making the least untruthful answer.

This is EXACTLY why the NSA should not have this data. All it takes is a thug administration and we are all at risk.

[muawiyah]

No doubt Clapper had a pocket full of different sorts of untruthful statements he could make that he was cleared to make ~ and also had no idea which ones were less than truthful or more truthful, or what.

He's the boss. In a highly compartmentalized organization like NSA even he doesn't get to know everything, or even half of everything ~ the compartmentalization is physical. If you've ever been to Mitre Corp, you figure out what's going on in seconds. They even have moveable walls ~ like a Sci Fi story, you may not go to the people you are supposed to meet with, but they can instantly put together a room around you to which they will go to meet you! Have had that happen there.

CIA in Langley is supposedly worse.

NSA has to use the same system.