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Obama does not feel Americans' privacy violated: chief of staff
Reuters via Yahoo News ^ | June 16, 2013 | Reuters

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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TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: benghazi; fastandfurious; impeachnow; irs; mcdonough; metadata; nsa; obamansa; privacy; spying; warantless; wiretaps
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To: Hardraade

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.


21 posted on 06/16/2013 12:58:21 PM PDT by null and void (Republicans create the tools of opression, and the democrats gleefully use them!)
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To: John W

0bamaDontCare.


22 posted on 06/16/2013 1:00:52 PM PDT by Paladin2 (;-))
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To: John W

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.


23 posted on 06/16/2013 1:05:46 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: a fool in paradise
I’ve heard the claim that only 300 phones were monitored

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.

24 posted on 06/16/2013 1:08:48 PM PDT by Rapscallion
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To: John W
0bama does not "feel" that his political opponents are Americans. So, no problem.
25 posted on 06/16/2013 1:14:56 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: TurboZamboni; All
... was legal and authorized by Congress in the interests of thwarting militant attacks.

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

26 posted on 06/16/2013 1:15:06 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: John W
this WH has the common criminal narcissistic mentality; its the victim's fault for allowing themselves to be in a position to become the victim
27 posted on 06/16/2013 1:15:59 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: John W

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.


28 posted on 06/16/2013 1:17:21 PM PDT by justa-hairyape
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To: John W
It's really creepy, the distance being put between ‘the people’ and the President. His administration hits the Sunday talk shows constantly to report to us serfs what Dear Leader ‘feels’ about any given subject. IMHO, this is being done to remove any notion that the President of the United States is accountable to the masses but rather to reinforce some notion of him being a Monarch.
29 posted on 06/16/2013 1:19:49 PM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: John W

Wonder if obama could ‘feel’ a punch in the mouth.


30 posted on 06/16/2013 1:31:23 PM PDT by MestaMachine (My caps work. You gotta earn them.)
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To: GOP Poet

“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.


31 posted on 06/16/2013 1:33:39 PM PDT by supremedoctrine
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To: John W

FUBO


32 posted on 06/16/2013 1:45:23 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
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To: MestaMachine

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.


33 posted on 06/16/2013 1:46:37 PM PDT by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: John W

This from Mr. Transparency.


34 posted on 06/16/2013 1:58:37 PM PDT by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: TurboZamboni
Cellphones seem to be increasingly attractive to the Department of Justice...

Reason #316 why I don't need a cellphone.

35 posted on 06/16/2013 2:09:52 PM PDT by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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To: Excellence

Wow, you’re right.


36 posted on 06/16/2013 3:47:00 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: supremedoctrine

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.


37 posted on 06/16/2013 4:44:21 PM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: John W

Says the man who hid his own history from the People’s scrutiny with a stroke of the Presidential pen.


38 posted on 06/16/2013 5:00:26 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Compliance with Tyranny is Treason...)
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To: John W

It worked so well protecting boston from thier bombing.no?


39 posted on 06/16/2013 5:11:59 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (yesterdays conspiracies are todays truths)
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