Posted on 10/29/2013 8:42:40 AM PDT by mojito
The White House and State Department signed off on surveillance targeting phone conversations of friendly foreign leaders, current and former U.S. intelligence officials said Monday, pushing back against assertions that President Obama and his aides were unaware of the high-level eavesdropping.
Professional staff members at the National Security Agency and other U.S. intelligence agencies are angry, these officials say, believing the president has cast them adrift as he tries to distance himself from the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that have strained ties with close allies.
The resistance emerged as the White House said it would curtail foreign intelligence collection in some cases and two senior U.S. senators called for investigations of the practice.
France, Germany, Italy, Mexico and Sweden have all publicly complained about the NSA surveillance operations, which reportedly captured private cellphone conversations by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, among other foreign leaders.
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The Congress is filled with Pathological liars too.
Tar and feathers for them all.
The White House did...the building did.
Barry Hussein didn’t know about it.
Biden 2013
When the press is pushed to the wall, they use the pronoun “White House” to refer to chicanery. They don’t directly attribute it to Obama.
The size of that bus Barry keeps throwing people under gets bigger and bigger each & every passing day.
I wonder how many of the professionals at Justice & other locations will release phone conversations of Barry’s when the shooting war starts???
We don’t do that.
We did it, but I didn’t know about it.
If I had known about it, I would have stopped it.
Now I know about it, so I am considering stopping it.
Okay, I actually signed off on it.
Next up...
This is Republicans’ fault because of the shutdown, sequester, debt ceiling, and due to the dirty politics of the terrorist Tea party group. So we are issuing a press release to call for Merkel to stop all the mudslinging.
Fear and dread must be slowly descending over the offices of the LA times. They contradicted the One...
I hope not! It is a dark and NOT good night under that bus, driven by a Dark Knight who is taking those still on it to an even darker place.
FUBARaq’s relationship with CIA is beginning to feel like JFK’s.....
Random act of journalism on the “magic negro” by the LA Times.
DiChiFi is not happy about this.
Obama is about to lose some more backers.
The positives are these and more: It has got people all over the world concerned about government interference into their private lives. The entire electronics communications network within terrorist organizations is being disrupted. They are now most likely relying far more on couriers which are easier to track and apprehend. It is making Obama look like the complete lying Bozo that he is. Obviously I could go on and on.
The negatives are what? Terrorists know not to use cell phones, emails, electronic bulletin boards, websites and other means of electronics communications? That is a positive. Did Eric Snowden out anyone who is now at risk? I haven't heard of anyone. Our intelligence communities “techniques” have been exposed. What have you learned that you didn't already suspect? Our allies in Europe are mad at us? What is new? Maybe next time they won't give a Nobel Peace Prize to an unproven liar who never accomplished anything.
I am just not buying any of it. I think that more likely than not the entire situation is an elaborate ruse to shut down terrorist communication networks. It seems more so every time they trickle out some extra tidbit. As soon as our enemies start peaking out we fire a few more shots over their heads. Maybe Julian Assange will even be allowed to go to South America after this thing calms back down. It is all just too perfect.
I hate it when the White House gives permission yet the people inside have no idea. These tyrannical old buildings are difficult to deal with.
Not Obama, they kept it secret from him just like w Obmacare website.
A modern day Sparticus. LOL.
Probably because the NSA has incriminating evidence against most members of the Senate and Congress.
It is not just us
world leaders he has inflamed
barry screws us all
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