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> The main reason I stand behind him is the matter of the director of the NSA lying to congress under oath. Did he? Everything I've read is that he used true

• hobs 10y ago
  That is called lying through omission.
• aidenn0 10y ago
  He was asked if the NSA had records on millions of US citizens and his answer was "No sir. There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly." His first explanation for this answer post Snowden was that the program was too secret to reveal publicly, so he had to give the "least untruthful answer" that wouldn't reveal the existence of the program. Later his lawyer said that he had forgotten about the program in question. Either way he did not use true words, but he may have merely forgotten rather than lied.
• dllthomas 10y ago
  He made up meaning sharply at odds with any common use of the words, and then didn't explain them. Outside of political fantasy, that is not called "using true words" - it's called lying. "No, honey, I technically told you the truth when I said I didn't have sex with her, because my buddies and I had secretly decided that 'sex' means gardening."