Now that Obama's intrusive global surveillance operations has begun to be widely exposed, the Obama regime's Director of National Intelligence, Gen. James Clapper, has also been exposed as potentially a perjurer when he lied to Congress in March about the very existence of those operations.

On March 12, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) asked Clapper: "I wanted to see if you could give me a yes or no answer to the question: Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"

Clapper: "No, sir."

Wyden: "It does not."

Clapper: "Not wittingly. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."

James R. Clapper, director of national intelligence. Credit: DOD

This past weekend, Clapper was asked by NBC's Andrea Mitchell to explain his lie. He said, "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner by saying, 'No."

This has proved too much for the political blogosphere. Politix.topix.com asks in its headline "Should DNI Clapper be impeached for lying to Congress about PRISM?" PRISM is the National Security Agency's operation that surveills Internet traffic.

Col. Pat Lang, who writes the Sic Semper Tyrannis blog, asks, "Is it not strange that the Congress that seems eager to pursue Snowden to the ends of the earth 'till he spouts black blood and rolls dead out' is apparently not concerned that the Director of National Intelligence and the Director of the National Security Agency both seem to have committed perjury in testimony before the Congress?"

Even the press poodles of the Empire's media outlets are sounding offended. Dana Milbank of the Washington Post writes, "We now know that Clapper was not telling the truth. The National Security Agency is quite wittingly collecting phone records of millions of Americans, and much more."

And Andrew Rosenthal, editorial page editor of the New York Times, in a piece he entitled, "Making Alberto Gonzales Look Good": "This was not, by the way, the first time data-collection came up at a Senate hearing. At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in July 2006, then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked whether the government had accumulated large amounts of data on Americans' routine phone calls. 'The programs and activities you ask about, to the extent that they exist, would be highly classified,' Mr. Gonzales said. You have to wonder about giving a position of vast responsibility to someone who can beat Mr. Gonzales in dishonesty."

Rosenthal notes that Fred Kaplan on the political site Slate said that Clapper should be fired. "I doubt Mr. Obama is going to do that," writes Rosenthal. "But, as Mr. Kaplan said, Mr. Clapper's participation in any public discussion of the limits of data mining will be of no value, since we are going to have to parse his meanings of complex words like yes and no."

What other unconstitutional crimes have Clapper and his co-conspirators committed and lied about?

It was reported in Salon.com on June 11 that it was Clapper who led the privatization of the NSA. Some 70% of the national intelligence budgets go to "private" corporations.

Tim Shorrock, who has been reporting on the topic for years, writes that the outsourcing plan was finalized in 2000. A special NSA Advisory Board was set up to determine the agency's future. It was codified in a secret report written by the then-obscure-intelligence-officer-turned Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper.

Clapper did a one-man study for the NSA Advisory Board, recalls Ed Loomis, a 40-year NSA veteran who, along with William Binney and two others, blew the whistle on corporate corruption at the NSA. Clapper's recommendation was that NSA acquire its Internet capabilities from the private sector. "The idea was, the private sector had the capability and we at NSA didn't need to reinvent the wheel."

Michael Hayden, who was the NSA director at the time, put a lot of trust in the private sector, and a lot of trust in Clapper, because Clapper was his mentor, added Loomis. "And once he got approval, he was hell-bent on privatization and nothing was going to derail that."

It should be recalled that the privatization of national security was the subject of a conference co-sponsored by Felix Rohatyn and George Shultz at Middlebury College a number of years back. The Rohatyn-Shultz push for the privatization and out-sourcing of national security was promoted by the Princeton Project on National Security, headed at the time by Ann-Marie Slaughter, who has been adamantly promoting full-scale U.S. military action to overthrow the Assad government in Syria.