Clapper - "It was the least untruthful answer possible"

[Cronus Protagonist]

Who cares what he says about Syria? And why would anyone believe anything the man says now and in the future?

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/01/james-clapper-apology-congress-erroneous-response

On 18 June, Senator Rand Paul, Republican of Kentucky, accused Clapper directly of lying, pointed out that lying on oath to Congress was a crime, and questioned whether he could continue in his position.

According to the latest revelation in the Washington Post on Monday, and confirmed by an Obama administration official, Clapper wrote to the Senate intelligence committee on 21 June, when he admitted directly that his answer was wrong. "My response was clearly erroneous – for which I apologize," Clapper said in the letter.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

1. And before that....

He helped Bush lie about WMDs.

The official, James R. Clapper Jr., a retired lieutenant general, said satellite imagery showing a heavy flow of traffic from Iraq into Syria, just before the American invasion in March, led him to believe that illicit weapons material “unquestionably” had been moved out of Iraq. [...]
He said he was providing a personal assessment. But he said “the obvious conclusion one draws” was that there “may have been people leaving the scene, fleeing Iraq, and unquestionably, I am sure, material.” A spokesman for General Clapper’s agency, David Burpee, said he could not provide further evidence to support the general’s statement.

http://thinkprogress.org/security/2010/06/07/100994/obama-nominates-clapper/