CREW: Justice Department should investigate Clapper

Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.), who led the nearly successful
effort to curb the NSA’s collection activities last week, called for Clapper to
resign last month over the remark.

{mosads}Clapper apologized earlier this month for making a “clearly erroneous”
statement, where he said that he was mistaken and did not think of Section 215
of the Patriot Act, which authorizes the NSA’s telephone metadata collection.

“My response was clearly erroneous — for which I apologize,”
Clapper wrote to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

“While my staff acknowledged the error to Senator Wyden’s
staff soon after the hearing, I can now openly correct it because the existence
of the metadata collection program has been declassified,” Clapper said.

At the hearing, Wyden had asked Clapper: “Does the NSA
collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of
Americans?”

“No, sir,” Clapper replied.

“There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps
collect, but not wittingly,” he added.