Submission + - lawmakers demanding obama fire clapper for lying (msnbc.com)
the letter, is signed by six House lawmakers. They include Republicans Darrell Issa of California, Paul Broun and Doug Collins of Georgia, Walter Jones of North Carolina, Ted Poe of Texas and Democrat Alan Grayson of Florida.
Lying to Congress is illegal. but, Ironically, Clapper himself could rely on the defense that he was misleading the public, rather than Congress. earlier this month the director of the Federation of American Scientists’ Project on Government Secrecy, wrote that the Senate intelligence committee couldn’t have been misled by Clapper, because they already knew the truth.