There are two sets of laws. One for lawmakers, the ultra-wealthy, politicians, judges, military, and cops (the protected class who can carry weapons); and another one for you and I.
Almost nobody has been indicted from a Senate hearing, whether they were high level bureaucrats like Clapper or ordinary private citizens, and there have been lies and half-truths in almost all of them. In this case, Clapper admitted his mistake answering this question which he likened to many similar questions about whether the NSA was intercepting Americans' communications and creating dossiers on them, which it was not.