Did Clapper commit perjury? Yes. Is the "chatter" real? Maybe.

[JackRiddler]

13. Then again, you never know, right?

Because there's nothing very implausible about the idea that random Arabs or Muslims might want to indiscriminately (and wrongly!) murder Americans, given the USG's high-profile international policy of global war, universal jurisdiction, remote-control assassination on executive whim, arbitrary targeting, killing civilians, arming the same "bad guys" who are later called enemies, supporting the absolute worst regimes in the world (starting with the Oil Kingdoms), backing Israeli occupation, maintaining the world's best known site for sadistic torture of randomly arrested brown men, etc. etc.

They've worked so hard to make real enemies!