James Clapper, the head of U.S. intelligence, is a fucking liar.

At the tail end of a rare open session of the Senate Intelligence Committee on March 12, 2013, Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., asked National Intelligence Director James Clapper : "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions, or hundreds of millions of Americans?" .

Clapper responded: "No, sir,"

In the following months, a series of news stories fueled by leaks from former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden revealed that wasn’t the case. Reports showed the government was collecting and storing bulk metadata of American phone records, and had methods for capturing a vast amount of email and Internet data as well. On June 5 and 6 2013, using information leaked by Snowden, The Guardian and The Washington Post released the first in a series of stories that would highlight how the NSA collected metadata from phone companies on calls made by U.S. citizens. Included in the bulk data was who called whom, for how long and when. Subsequent stories showed that Internet data was being collected under different programs. The fact is that the US intelligence is headed by a man who is a fucking liar, who lied not only to congress but to the American people and the whole world about how the US spies on its own people.