THE director of America's National Intelligence has apologised for telling congress earlier this year that the National Security Agency (NSA) does not collect data on millions of Americans, a response James Clapper now says was "clearly erroneous".
Clapper apologised in a letter to senate intelligence committee chairwoman Dianne Feinstein. His agency posted the letter on Tuesday on its website.
Leaks by former NSA systems analyst Edward Snowden have revealed the NSA's sweeping data collection of US phone records and some internet traffic every day, though US intelligence officials have said the programs are aimed at targeting foreigners and terrorist suspects mostly overseas.
Clapper was asked during a hearing in March if the NSA gathered "any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans".
At first, Clapper answered definitively: "No."
Pressed by Senator Ron Wyden, Clapper changed his answer. "Not wittingly," he said. "There are cases where they could inadvertently perhaps collect, but not wittingly."
Last month, in an interview with NBC News after revelations about the program, Clapper said: "I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful, manner" - because the program was classified.
In his letter to Feinstein, Clapper wrote that he was thinking about whether the NSA gathered the content of emails, rather than the metadata of the phone records - the record of calls to and from US citizens and the length of those phone calls.
"I realised later Senator Wyden was asking about ... metadata collection, rather than content collection," Clapper wrote. "Thus, my response was clearly erroneous, for which I apologise."
In the letter, Clapper said he could now publicly correct the record, because the existence of the metadata collection program has been declassified since the deluge of leaks from Snowden.
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