Government
Aug. 7, 2013
Unequal justice in Snowden affair
Clapper was rightfully indicted and resigned, and Snowden was feted as a hero for revealing the chicanery of an official who we entrusted with enormous power. Right? Not exactly.
On March 12 at an open congressional hearing, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked James Clapper, "Does the National Security Agency collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" Clapper, the director of the agency replied, "No sir ... not wittingly." In early June, Edward Snowden, a private contractor, released documents to journalists from the British paper The Guardian debunking Clapper's claim. Indeed, millions of Americans' personal records are deliberate...
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