[Vision2020] Huge majority wants Clapper prosecuted for perjury

[Scott Dredge]

The question is logically straightforward.  The director was revealed to have lied to Congress and he's on record as admitting to not telling the truth.  Lacking any other critical information, I'd be compelled to answer 'No' to a question of 'should he be prosecuted for pejury?'

How about you Paul?  Would you answer 'Yes' to a blatantly biased poll question such as this that is just begging for an answer of 'Yes'?

-Scott

Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 17:19:33 -0700
From: godshatter at yahoo.com
To: Vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] Huge majority wants Clapper prosecuted for perjury


  

    
  
  
    I'm curious how people here would have voted on the poll.  If you
    don't want to read further, here is the question that was asked:  

    

    "Edward Snowden revealed that the Director of National Intelligence
    lied to Congress about whether the government was collecting
    millions of phone and Internet records from ordinary Americans. The
    Director has since admitted he did not tell the truth. Do you think
    the Director of National Intelligence should be prosecuted for
    perjury?"

    

    Also, how much gall is there in Obama asking Clapper to head an NSA
    reform panel?  Is he trying to look evil?

    

    Paul

    

    

    

    Here is the article from Salon
(http://www.salon.com/2013/08/15/huge_majority_wants_clapper_prosecuted_for_perjury/):

    

    

    Huge majority wants Clapper prosecuted for
            perjury

    

     New polls show Americans in various states want the director of
    national intelligence held to account for lying

    By David Sirota

    

    There is no longer any doubt that Director of National Intelligence
    James Clapper lied to Congress. Likewise, there is no doubt that his
    lie runs afoul of federal law. And, of course, there is no doubt
    that in terms of its implications for oversight, constitutional
    precepts and privacy for millions of Americans, his lies were far
    more serious than those that have gotten other people prosecuted for
    perjury. The question now is whether his brazen dishonesty will
    become a political issue — or whether it will simply disappear into
    the ether.

    

    As evidenced by President Obama this week attempting to promote
    Clapper to head an “independent” NSA reform panel, the White House
    clearly believes it will be the latter. But a set of new polls out
    today suggests such a calculation may be wrong.

    

    Commissioned by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and Credo
    and conducted by Public Policy Polling in five ideologically diverse
    states, the surveys find that huge majorities want Clapper
    prosecuted.

    

    The question posed to respondents was:

    

        Edward Snowden revealed that the Director of National
    Intelligence lied to Congress about whether the government was
    collecting millions of phone and Internet records from ordinary
    Americans. The Director has since admitted he did not tell the
    truth. Do you think the Director of National Intelligence should be
    prosecuted for perjury?

    

    In the Democratic states of California and Hawaii, 54 percent and 58
    percent of voters, respectively, want him prosecuted. In
    middle-of-the-road Iowa, it’s 65 percent. And in Republican Texas
    and Kentucky, it is 68 percent and 69 percent, respectively.

    

    These are particularly striking numbers because the “not sure”
    numbers are relatively small. Oftentimes, Washington scandals have a
    Las Vegas-style quality to them in that what happens in D.C. stays
    in D.C. That often means voters don’t have strong feelings about a
    controversy — or don’t feel informed enough to have a strong
    opinion.

    

    But in this case, the polls show relatively few voters expressing
    such a sentiment. That suggests not only that the NSA story has
    seeped into the national consciousness, but also that people are
    specifically aware of — and disgusted by — the rampant lying by the
    Obama administration.

    

    PCCC is already running a campaign to try to force a formal
    investigation into the NSA’s activities. Will we soon see ads by
    congressional candidates criticizing the administration’s failure to
    prosecute Clapper? Last week, D.C. political operatives might have
    laughed at that idea.

    

    But with these new polls, it doesn’t seem so far-fetched. In fact,
    it seems more and more like shrewd politics — especially if the
    White House continues to grant de facto immunity to Clapper and
    others who hid potentially illegal and unconstitutional surveillance
    from Congress.

  


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