To this day, I find to hard to call Clapper's response anything but a direct and intentional lie. I do hope in a post-Snowden world, officials will be more careful not to lie under oath to Congress.
Clapper came to my school to talk and I asked him "to speak about the allegations of perjury". He was not amused, and repeated the line about having forgotten about the PATRIOT Act.
All the CIA does lying, day in day out. That's literally their job, besides extra juridical killings. And they usually don't care about Congress or White House. So it's not unexpected that he got caught. He certainly does not care, as he is more powerful than Obama or Congress.
