Posted on 08/13/2013 9:47:36 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Big headlines last Friday, as President Obama planned, for his news conference announcement.
He was naming "a high-level group of outside experts" to probe the nation's entire intelligence apparatus for abuses to boost transparency and reassure Americans worried about their civil freedoms in a new era of vast government surveillance technology.
Obama said he himself was absolutely confident no abuses exist. But fears had been stoked by the Snowden leaks and revelations of the immense scope of NSA snooping on civilian society in the name of fighting terrorism.
"It’s not enough for me, as President, to have confidence in these programs," Obama reasonably told a nationwide TV audience. "The American people need to have confidence in them as well."
He's absolutely right. Sounds good too, like Obama's 2008 promise to sign on his first day as president an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility within one year? ~snip~
To note that 1,665 days later Guantanamo is still going strong is a racist criticism. So, we'll note instead that just three days after his dramatic news conference anti-surveillance abuse promise last Friday, the administration moved to create the group.
It is a group of "outside experts" if by outside you mean people who have been outdoors at some point in recent weeks.
~snip~
James Clapper, Obama's Director of National Intelligence who integrates and oversees all national intelligence, will run the group examining what all national intelligence does. James Clapper, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, will name the group examining what all national intelligence does.
James Clapper, Obama's Director of National Intelligence, will digest his groups' findings on what national intelligence has been doing under James Clapper and James Clapper will report them to his boss Obama, who's already said publicly there are no abuses.
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Priceless: James Clapper, Obama’s Director of National Intelligence, will digest his groups’ findings on what national intelligence has been doing under James Clapper and James Clapper will report them to his boss Obama, who’s already said publicly there are no abuses.
Kind of like the fox guarding the proverbial henhouse. It’s good to be in power.
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