Andrew Napolitano on the NSA’s Admission of Wrongdoing

Last week, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper
sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), a member of the
Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of
the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading innocent
Americans’ emails and text messages and listening to digital
recordings of their telephone conversations. That the NSA is doing
this is not newsworthy—Edward Snowden
has told the world of this during the past 10 months—but
what is newsworthy is that the NSA
has admitted this, and those admissions have
far-reaching consequences.

In his letter to Wyden, Clapper not only implicitly acknowledged
that Snowden was correct all along, but also that he, Clapper, lied
to and materially misled the Senate Intelligence Committee. Andrew
Napolitano asks: Shouldn’t we expect that Clapper be prosecuted for
lying to a congressional committee about the most massive
government plot in U.S. history to violate the Fourth
Amendment? 

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