Polls say Americans are concerned about National Security Agency surveillance. According to a progressive group's survey, many want to see a top intelligence official punished for giving Congress inaccurate answers about the NSA's efforts.
An internal NSA audit, released Thursday by The Washington Post, found that the agency has violated privacy rules thousands of times every year since 2008. But even before those revelations, a majority of voters in five state-level polls said that James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, should be prosecuted for giving Congress a "clearly erroneous" answer about NSA surveillance.
Prosecute James Clapper, Voters In Five State Polls Say
Clapper's mistake was in showing up at all. If, for whatever reason, I were to be called to testify before Congress, I would not condescend to appear before that body.
It routinely permits perjury, it permits the arrogation of its powers by other branches, and it permits Pentagon brass to boldly state that the United States military derives from NATO its authority to operate. (My immediate answer would have been "well, then I suggest that you appeal to NATO for next year's funding. What you appear to have forgotten, General, in your delirium of a forty-year string of spectacular military failures, is that the House of Representatives has the power to convert you into a harmless and obedient mall security detachment, complete with a couple of rusting frigates and a few broken-down halftracks. So remember who calls the shots around here, little man.")
I ignore all United States law for so many reasons, perhaps principal among them that the body has no respect for itself. It's a doormat.
So I suggest that that assembly reacquaint itself with the Constitution, wherein they will learn that they call all the shots around here. That body needs to put the fear of God into that errant, wayward little branch called the executive.
You pull that branch's pants down right in the middle of this store and you administer a good spanking right here in front of everyone or you stop embarrassing yourselves by proffering what no rational, decent person would ever countenance as a "law."
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[Can you imagine the tongue lashings I could deliver if I were on some Congressional committee? I would positively delight in righteously reducing to tears those who so richly deserve it. There is no greater pleasure in this world.]