Shortly after an attempt to curtail the NSA's surveillance capabilities failed narrowly in Congress, two of the measure's co-sponsors have said that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should still be held accountable for giving false testimony. "[Clapper] was here in March and unambiguously lied to Congress," Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) told Democracy Now . "And I believe he was under oath. And it really sets a bad precedent for the whole organization to let him keep his post. I think he should be relieved of his post for lying to Congress." Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) said that he "completely" agreed. "We're now at the point of having a more honest disclosure of what's going on in our intelligence community, which we now find was...
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