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Obama: No Allegations NSA Is Trying to 'Listen in On People's Email'
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Posted on 08/23/2013 6:19:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

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Don't know about you but I usually read my email, never listen to it........
1 posted on 08/23/2013 6:19:15 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver

Nice weasel words, ‘no allegation’.


2 posted on 08/23/2013 6:22:09 AM PDT by dirtboy
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To: Sub-Driver

I am sure the Germans were confident in the SS too.

Pray for America to Wake Up


3 posted on 08/23/2013 6:22:23 AM PDT by bray (Coming soon: The Republic of Texas 2022)
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To: Sub-Driver

They don’t watch your phone calls either.

(However, they do read your emails and listen to your phone calls.)


4 posted on 08/23/2013 6:23:39 AM PDT by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: Sub-Driver

: Because there are no allegations, and I am very confident — knowing the NSA and how they operate — that purposefully somebody is out there trying to abuse this program or listen in on people’s e-mail — or... “

Read that a couple times until you get it folks.


5 posted on 08/23/2013 6:23:49 AM PDT by Norm Lenhart
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I noticed that too. Obama didn't say it. Author Daniel Halper put it in his headline.

Didn't he or his editor catch that when they proofed it? I'm assuming they proofed it.

6 posted on 08/23/2013 6:24:44 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (So Obama "inherited" a mess? Firemen "inherit" messes too. Ever see one put gasoline on it?)
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Obama: No Allegations NSA Is Trying to 'Listen in On People's Email'

Nice attempt to weasel-word the issue, 0bama. "Listen" to email??? Lying POS.

7 posted on 08/23/2013 6:29:49 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Similar to Bill Clinton saying he and Paula Jones “weren’t alone in that hotel.”


8 posted on 08/23/2013 6:30:36 AM PDT by ScottinVA (If you don't care about Antonio Santiago, sure as hell don't whine about Trayvon Martin.)
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To: dirtboy
Nice weasel words, ‘no allegation’.

Also "didn't listen to". Read 'em all. Didn't listen to a single one.


9 posted on 08/23/2013 6:33:34 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Sub-Driver

This just in..”Large bridge over East River for sale..cheap...toll booths included. Make offer!”


10 posted on 08/23/2013 6:36:10 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: Sub-Driver

Technology cannot outpace the law - I own a gun; the law state I cannot legally murder another person; when I upgrade to a phaser the law still applies. And had the program been written to comply with the law in the first place the information would not have been gathered and could not have accidently been abused. To my way of thinking the gathering of all metadata constitutes an unreasonable search and seizure.


11 posted on 08/23/2013 6:38:02 AM PDT by Plain Old American (Remember who said what; Remind those who don't Remember; Vote and take a friend to the polls)
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To: Sub-Driver

Never palpitates telegrams, never listens to email, never gazes at your telephone call — not a single time.

Rest assured.


12 posted on 08/23/2013 6:40:28 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Sub-Driver

This POS has lied to everyone he has encountered since he was about 10 years old.

He entered college with forged papers & claimed Foreign Aid.

He got grades in classes he didn’t attend.

He used the improper actions of getting SEALED divorce papers to get his opponent in the Illinois Senate elections to drop out, so he didn’t really ‘run’ against anybody.

He voted ‘present’ in a majority of the votes he made in the Illinois Legislature.

He entered the Congress from Illinois & continued to vote ‘present’.

He ran for President without a spit of expertise or experience for the job. He relied on voter fraud, propagated by his own organization ACORN and the media who would turn a blind eye to his obvious contradictions.

He spent 2 1/2 years campaigning for the Oval Office & lying over & over again to the US voters.

He has openly supported Muslim/Islam issues against the American citizens & their country.

He has run the country with Executive Orders rather than actually recognizing the importance & usage of the 3 branches of our government.

He has openly defied the Supreme Court & Congress.

How can anyone in this country believe a single word he says?

He has been lying his entire life.


13 posted on 08/23/2013 6:58:50 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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How can anyone in this country believe a single word he says?

51% of voters believed him. And when the Gay Boy is gone, we are still stuck with the 51%.

14 posted on 08/23/2013 7:11:29 AM PDT by bkopto (Obama and Biden are merely symptoms of a more profound, systemic disease in American body politic.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

They speek very quietly.


15 posted on 08/23/2013 7:15:29 AM PDT by ully2
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To: Sub-Driver
(from the article):" since the disclosures that were made by Mr. Snowden is that people don't have enough information and aren't confident enough that,(#1) between all the safeguards and checks that we put in place within the executive branch, and the(#2) federal court oversight that takes place on the program, and (#3) congressional oversight, people are still concerned as to whether their e-mails are being read or their phone calls are being listened to," Obama responded. "

Issue #1 ;It is the safeguards and checks put in by the Executive branch that concern the U.S. citizens.
Citizen concerns depend on 'trust', and you have proven to be a liar , and untrustworthy!
Issue #2: The Federal Court which you reference has already determined that those NSA actions were "UNCONSTITUTIONAL ".
Issue #3 : Congressional oversight by Nancy Pelosi - You have to be kidding me !!
Summary : Previous instances of Executive branch 'over-reach',combined with Executive branch safeguards , added to Federal court "UNCONSTITUTIONALITY",
and then congressional oversight ( as if there ever was such a thing ), and you wonder why people could be concerned ?
What could go wrong here ?

16 posted on 08/23/2013 7:30:54 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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It doesn’t even require a semantic stretch as far as redefining ‘is’ to note that ‘read’ and ‘listen’ by the statists’ definition only applies to the actions of a human being - not a computer program.

So, all calls and emails are ‘screened’ by a computer, relevant portions are excerpted, and a report is created. Plausible deniability strikes again.

I have yet to hear one media type raise this obvious point.

Bonus comment: try this scenario - say a politician in the president’s party gets murdered; heck, make it a member of the family of a future president. Does anyone doubt that every tidbit in the NSA scrapbook would be combed through - without going through the messy FISA court? Does anyone believe that career bureaucrats wouldn’t instantly fold under pressure from their political bosses to execute such a search?

Remember the term of art early in the Clinton admin: ‘bureaucratic SNAFU’? That’s all the cover they would need. And Peter King would support it. (he’s one of many who shamelessly claim that congressional oversight is the same as public accountability)


17 posted on 08/23/2013 8:15:23 AM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: dirtboy

Nice weasel words, ‘no allegation’.

At least we know Obama got something from his law school and that is how to use Weasel words...


18 posted on 08/23/2013 8:16:06 AM PDT by GraceG
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To: Sub-Driver

THE FBI DIRECTOR SAID THAT THEY WERE YESTERDAY!


19 posted on 08/23/2013 8:29:19 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
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To: Sub-Driver

Teleprompter broken?


20 posted on 08/23/2013 9:01:58 AM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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