Posted on 06/07/2013 3:40:42 PM PDT by tobyhill
President Barack Obama on Friday staunchly defended the sweeping U.S. government surveillance of Americans' phone and internet activity, calling it a "modest encroachment" on privacy that was necessary to defend the United States from attack.
"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about," Obama told reporters during a visit to California's Silicon Valley. He emphasized that the secret surveillance programs were supervised by federal judges and authorized by Congress, which had been briefed on the details.
Obama's comments came after reports this week in Britain's Guardian newspaper and the Washington Post revealed that the National Security Agency and the FBI had secretly conducted surveillance of Americans' telephone and internet communications activities far beyond what had been made public.
The two reports triggered a broad debate about privacy rights and the proper limits of government surveillance in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. They also sent White House officials and congressional leaders scrambling to explain why the government needs to collect information on trillions of phone calls and internet communications.
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Obama makes me feel totally insecure.
What security? How did the Boston bombers get through?
That’s not what he said as a US Senator and then candidaite for POTUS. Words, just words?
security is an illusion and therefore I demand my freedoms instead. It is such a simple concept but it completely eludes the left.
“Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” - Patrick Henry, known terrorist (to the British)
Bankrobber says, “You know the only reason we brought guns is because we wanted the bank patrons on the scene during the robbery to be safe.”
So he changed his mind since 2007 when he was against it
or he is just a big fat liar.
Sure different than when Bush was in office.
Pray for America to Wake Up
Let Benjamin Franklin answer the Kenyan.
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
No compromise on liberty.
FUBO
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