Paul seems to miss the point of what happens when you flee; that’s added charges that will get you life in prison - the very thing Paul is claiming that Snowden was trying to avoid.

Considering how the GOP will latch on to anything that would seem to harm the President, one has to wonder why Snowden didn’t approach GOPers in Congress with this stuff?

You know, like the way Ellsberg did before going to the NYT to publish data.

It undermines his credibility (what little he had).

As for Clapper, the Guardian reported that the DNI couldn’t correct testimony due to the nature of the setting (unclassified while discussing classified programs:

Among such violations, the editorial said: “His leaks revealed that James Clapper Jr, the director of national intelligence, lied to Congress when testifying in March that the NSA was not collecting data on millions of Americans. (There has been no discussion of punishment for that lie.)”

In his letter to the newspaper, referring to one of the key Senate advocates of NSA reform, Litt continued: “Senator Ron Wyden asked about collection of information on Americans during a lengthy and wide-ranging hearing on an entirely different subject. While his staff provided the question the day before, Mr Clapper had not seen it. As a result, as Mr Clapper has explained, he was surprised by the question and focused his mind on the collection of the content of Americans’ communications. In that context, his answer was and is accurate.

“When we pointed out Mr Clapper’s mistake to him, he was surprised and distressed. I spoke with a staffer for Senator Wyden several days later and told him that although Mr Clapper recognized that his testimony was inaccurate, it could not be corrected publicly because the program involved was classified.”

Litt concluded: “This incident shows the difficulty of discussing classified information in an unclassified setting and the danger of inferring a person’s state of mind from extemporaneous answers given under pressure. Indeed, it would have been irrational for Mr. Clapper to lie at this hearing, since every member of the committee was already aware of the program.”