Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency – The InterceptDispatches Clapper Reads From the Bush/Cheney/Nixon Playbook to Fear-Monger Over Transparency James Clapper, President Obama’s top national security official, is probably best known for having been caught lying outright to Congress about NSA activities, behavior which (as some baseball players found out) happens to be a felony under federal law.