Posted on 01/18/2014 2:56:25 PM PST by Olog-hai
US President Barack Obama has said he will not spy on EU leaders or conduct economic espionage, but will continue snooping on ordinary US and EU citizens.
He made the pledge in a TV speech on Friday (17 January) in reaction to the Edward Snowden leaks.
“I’ve made clear to the intelligence community that unless there is a compelling national security purpose, we will not monitor the communications of heads of state and government of our close friends and allies,” he said.
“We do not collect intelligence to provide a competitive advantage to US companies or US commercial sectors,” he added.
He justified the mass-scale collection of information on ordinary US or foreign nationals’ telephone calls, however. …
(Excerpt) Read more at euobserver.com ...
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He also made no reference to the NSA's most controversial exploits.
He said nothing on its introduction of bugs into commercial encryption software, on burglarising undersea cables, on hacking internet and phone companies, or bugging EU officials.
“unless there is a compelling national security purpose”.
And those are sooooo hard to dream up when you need an excuse for something
If the EU leaders are at least mouth breathing they should know not to believe one word out of little barry bastard boy’s mouth. He is completely and utterly without honesty. He is a degenerate, lying, drug-addled fascist.
after he’s finished deballing the military, he destroys our ability to collect intel...
whew, good thing we didn’t elect Romney...
LOL!— good one- I hope the teleprompter guy puts that in!
If you like your privacy, you can keep it.
Clown Prince nobama’s “promises” are merely his spewing more lies. Liars lie...that’s what they do.
Ask Angela Merkel what she thinks about Bam and his promises. I heard she personally called him on the phone and cussed him out for bugging her cellphone. Exactly what I would have done.
Its like we have regressed back to high school only its our country. I’m waiting for him to put plastic wrap on Amgela’s toilet seat.
We have met our leader and he is Urkel. :-)
So in other words, he's not promising not to spy. He's just saying he'll find a national security purpose, and whether that purpose is real or not will only be known to him. In other words, business as usual.
lol
And the EU leaders are satisfied with Zero’s promise?
If so, they SHOULD be spied on for being stupid.
So, he lied.
Dear EU,
“If you like your secrets, you can keep your secrets.”
Signed,
America’s Token Idiot Quota Baby
Who really gives a damn what this Kenyan jack-ass says. Every word out of his mouth is a lie.
Our “allies” overseas use his words as a gauge for their own actions, especially whether or not to become more hawkish themselves. So yeah; they care, for now.
I don’t understand. Everything he says is a lie. Just go from there.
I don’t think that when he spoke with Medvedev, he was lying. Remember that?
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