Obama’s ‘efforts’ to reform the NSA may simply be smoke and mirrors. His new pick to head the agency defended spying on Americans on a massive scale, following the administration’s claim that it is a necessary tool to foil terrorist threats.
Responding to questions from Senators, Vice Admiral Michael Rogers stated that it is imperative that the NSA have access to vast amounts of metadata, in order that the government can keep Americans safe.Rogers argued that section 215 of the Patriot Act should remain intact and the spooks should not be hindered from using it to justify mass surveillance.
“The telephone metadata program under Section 215 was designed to map the communications of terrorists so we can see who they may be in contact with as quickly as possible,” Rogers said.
Obviously, Obama’s nomination of Rogers is designed to maintain the status quo at the NSA, not to create any meaningful reforms. He intends to simply replace one agency head with another who will continue violating Americans’ right to privacy, under the shelter of vague suggestions this might, someday, stop a terrorist.
Source: Infowars
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WE NEED SURVEILLANCE ON HIM
Outrages!!!
Sen. Cruz should be rallying for charges against Obama for acts of treason as he keeps giving our weapons and top secret information to terrorist countries .
Unfortunately, the definition of who IS and who IS NOT a “terrorist” has changed! Those who are terrorists now are: the Tea Party, Conservatives, Republicans. Those who are NOT are ‘extremist Muslims’, the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda, the Taliban, ‘undocumented aliens’ and a few others.
Pull Barry Soetoro’s ‘am-president-so-i-can-do-anything-card’…it is something Soros & Jarrett had printed up for him.
Do you know that George Soros made $450 million dollars last year, and that’s equivalent to ~$215,000 dollars per hour??
So much for the Progressive Liberal, George Soros believing in the “equality of pay” issue.
If he really wanted to help the poor, he’d pay for their food stamps/SNAP benefits himself.
repeal all Obama influence impeach the sick bastard and restore our nation..hes an obvious treasoner and anyone supporting him is either blind or a commy associate
CORRUPTION IF THE WAY OF THE LAND AS LOG AS OBAMA IS LEFT IN THE WHITE HOUSE! DO SOMETHING YOU WHOM WE ENTRUSTED WITH OUR VOTES. SOON YOU WILL BE REPALCED FOR LACK OF DILIGENCE.
once again our lives are none of your business , have you nothing better to do ?!! might i suggest you do something construtive for a dam change !!
God help us all
Keep pushing back! Thanks!
Getting all the dirt on people as he can is Obama’s style. It has worked for him in the past to get people to do what he wanted them to do, so why would he stop new.