Posted on 06/16/2013 12:40:25 PM PDT by John W
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama does not believe the recently disclosed top-secret National Security Agency surveillance of phone records and Internet data has violated Americans' privacy rights, his chief of staff said on Sunday.
The administration has said the top-secret collection of massive amounts of "metadata" from phone calls - raw information that does not identify individual telephone subscribers, was legal and authorized by Congress in the interests of thwarting militant attacks. It has said the agencies did not monitor calls.
Asked whether Obama feels he has violated the privacy of Americans, McDonough said, "He does not."
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Perhaps. But they made of point of telling us the CIA(?) had his specially modified right after he took office to prevent tracking and monitoring.
It would be a bad thing for a foreign power to be able to target a cruise missile on his Blackbarry, or remotely listen in on cabinet meetings, etc.
0bamaDontCare.
F Obama and what he “feels”.
He is rapidly destroying a free America.
Now we have government monitoring of citizen phonecalls and e-mails and cars and credit and taxes and what not. Obama is America’s first tyrant.
The NSA admits now to a far worse situation. Employee monitoring citizen phones at will. If we allow this America is really done in by the tyrants.
Such a statement coming from the administration regardless that author of the Patriot Act has testified that collecting such data is an abuse of the act, and that the Boston bombers fell through the cracks.
Patriot Act author says NSA surveillance ‘an abuse’ of the law
Sorry pal, but objective number 2 in the coming revolution will be the utter destruction of this data base. It is a threat to every Americans security. Objective number 1 of course will be restoring the constitution as the supreme law of the land.
Wonder if obama could ‘feel’ a punch in the mouth.
“I hope it tweaks the hell out of all those Libs!”
——More likely, given what we know, it is a perfect strategy for flushing out all NSA-opposition, laying it all out there
with usernames and sometimes faces attached to it: no need for a high-tech dragnet there—it’s all dutifully assembled
for anyone and everyone to see.
FUBO
He’s one of guys you can’t understand how he hasn’t received a boatload of those in his life. Maybe he has, we wouldn’t know about it.
This from Mr. Transparency.
Reason #316 why I don't need a cellphone.
Wow, you’re right.
Yep. They can do what ever they want. Some of us won’t let it shut us up. You are right, more than likely this is something if they aren’t doing they sure want to be.
Says the man who hid his own history from the People’s scrutiny with a stroke of the Presidential pen.
It worked so well protecting boston from thier bombing.no?
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