
“The US director of national intelligence, James Clapper, has attempted to head off criticism that he lied to Congress over the extent of government surveillance on American citizens, with a letter to senators in which he apologised for giving ‘erroneous’ information. Two weeks after telling NBC news that he gave the ‘least untruthful answer possible’ at a hearing in March, Clapper wrote to the Senate intelligence committee to correct his response to a question about whether the National Security Agency ‘collected data on millions of Americans’.”
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