Clapper answered accurately.
Colin Powell was lied to by the WH.
Bill
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 3:02 PM Ed LeBouthillier <codemonky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
As a manager, I long ago understood that this sort of conversationreveals a lot about the
character of the—in this case—poster and little to nothing about thefacts.
Ooh...a "real" manager? That must make you authoritative on this issue of
lying.
The US Government and it’s intelligence agencies in particular try toavoid false statements
(WH excepted);I have seen people “lie” to the extent that if pushed intoa corner by a direct
question they will say they don’t know rather than reveal classifiedinformation—I have so done myself.
Oh, so when James Clapper answered the question 'whether the NSA collected
"any type of data at all on
millions or hundreds of millions of Americans” — to which Clapper said
"No, sir ... not wittingly.”'
[
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/01/27/darrell-issa-james-clapper-lied-to-congress-about-nsa-and-should-be-fired/?utm_term=.5fdc3e959a34
]
that wasn't an intelligence agency lying to congress or the American
public?
Was that an individual lying to the people or was that a TLA lying to the
people, or was that the government lying to the people?
When Colin Powell talked about yellow cake [
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-schwarz/colin-powell-wmd-iraq-war_b_2624620.html
] was that an individual lying, the State Department lying, or the
government lying?
Just because there isn't a policy to lie (or at least a written policy),
doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
