Posted on 12/05/2013 8:45:32 AM PST by kobald
A team of surveillance experts on Wednesday delivered preliminary recommendations to the White House on whether and how to amend U.S. spying policies.
President Obama appointed the Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technology, as it is officially known, as part of his response to global outrage over secret American surveillance programs. The panel's task is to advise the administration on how best to balance security needs against privacy concerns.
The group briefed National Security Adviser Susan Rice, counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco and other staff from the National Security Council at the White House, according to NSC spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden. This was an oral presentation, with the final written report due by Dec. 15. Parts of the group's final conclusions will be made public, while the full report will remain classified.
Obama has said he will rely on these recommendations to chart a new path forward for U.S. spying policy. But the president evolved to reach that position, gradually adjusting his response over five months of steady leaks from former defense contractor Edward Snowden....
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* Obama tells Lie A
* Story based on Snowden's whistle-blower files refutes Lie A
* Obama shifts to Lie B
* Story based on Snowden's whistle-blower files refutes Lie B
* Lather-Rinse-Repeat
Same protocol as he used when his lies to Congress regarding Fast & Furious, the IRS witchhunt of tea party groups, Benghazi, etc. came to light.
“LOOK! A squirrel!!!”
Point at “income inequality” and yell “Squirrel!”
Seems to be his sole response to everything.
When your national “security” administration AND your national defense agencies AND your white house staff are all lead by liberals, communists, and world-socialist idealist who collectively hate America and its past ....
What’s not to like about their “recommendations” to a Muslim-attracted, liberal socialist ignorant America-hating president when they (collectively) recommend “limiting” the NSA’s spying on their enemies?
After all, Obama’s “enemies” - foreign and domestic - ARE the white, conservative, christian, male and heterosexuals who the NSA is already spying over. ANYTHING they “recommend” he will advertise as “the truth” and accept as “legal”
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