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Basically said he was trying to do to putin what senator widen had done to america's intelligence chief james clapper before all of the snowden documents came out. clapper was asked during a congressional hearing does the united states gather data on millions americans and clapper said no it the snowden documents proved that was not true. so snowden's question ran parallel to widen's. but putin's answer wasn't anything like clapper's. >> i ask you your reaction to this snowden question. how about the u.s. intelligence communities reaction? what do you know about that? >> i actually know a bit ...