Friday, June 7, 2013
Obama and Huffington Post Divorice.
The liberal Huntington post lashes out in anger with the invasion of privacy after they defended Obama! They never wrote anything anti Obama.. Shall we debunk theFogBow.com defenders of Obama now? or are they still on Obama's payroll. I am wondering how many trillions of dollars they were paid by Obama to debunk the truth.
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"The programs are secret in the sense that they are classified. They are not secret, in that every member of Congress has been briefed," he said during a speech in San Jose, Calif. "These are programs that have been authored by large bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006."
"Your duly elected representatives have consistently been informed," he said.
News outlets revealed this week that vast spying programs began under President George W. Bush have continued under President Barack Obama. The Guardian reported Wednesday that the National Security Agency had obtained a court order to collect phone records from Verizon Wireless customers, while The Washington Post reported Thursday of the existence of the PRISM program, which was launched in 2007 and tracks information from nine leading U.S. Internet companies: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, YouTube, Apple, PalTalk and Skype.
Obama defended the programs as essential to combating terrorist threats. "They may identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism," he said.
He also argued that some have overstated the impact of the programs. "Some of the hype we've been hearing over the past day or so -- nobody has listened to the content of people's phone calls," he said.
He portrayed the programs as a trade-off between security and civil liberties, and expressed his displeasure that their existence was leaked to the press.
"I don't welcome leaks," he said. "There's a reason these programs are classified."
Obama's full-throated defense of the programs, albeit with the qualification that he welcomes debate, is unlikely to quell the outrage over the revelations. Obama ran as an antidote to Bush's policies in 2008, but the reports reveal that he has continued many of them, leading to concerns over the reach of the national security state.
Disclosure: The Huffington Post is owned by AOL, which has denied knowledge of the PRISM program.