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Print |. A A. Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., an author of the Patriot Act, is calling for Director of National Intelligence James Clapper to be prosecuted for lying to Congress last March in response to a question by Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., about alleged NSA snooping on Americans.
âI donât want to do the âI-word,â nobody wants to throw the nation into that kind of turmoil,â Representative Steve King, an anti-illegal-immigration firebrand, told CNN. But King and others are pointing out that there is another way for Congress to move against a president who has put himself above the law. And itâs one that Democrats once favored as a means of dealing with Bill Clintonâs perjury under oath and subsequent cover-up of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.