Source: NYT, 6-9-13
A British newspaper identified its source as Edward Snowden, a former C.I.A. employee who has worked at the National Security Agency as a contractor….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on June 9, 2013
https://politicsbuzz.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/political-headlines-june-9-2013-edward-snowden-former-cia-worker-says-he-leaked-us-surveillance-data/
Source: NYT, 6-7-13
President Obama on Friday defended government efforts to gather telephone and Internet data, and sought to reassure Americans that his administration was not listening in on their calls….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on June 7, 2013
https://politicsbuzz.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/political-headlines-june-7-2013-president-barack-obama-calls-surveillance-programs-legal-and-limited/
Source: LAT, 6-7-13
President Obama said Friday that the government is not listening to the phone calls and reading the emails of Americans, but warned that the country “can’t have 100% security” and still have “100% privacy.”
“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” Obama said. Investigators “are not looking at people’s names and they’re not looking at content,” he said, but rather examining call logs to “identify potential leads with respect to folks who might engage in terrorism.”…READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on June 7, 2013
https://politicsbuzz.wordpress.com/2013/06/07/political-headlines-june-7-2013-president-barack-obama-defends-nsa-surveillance-programs-in-california-stop/
Source: The Guardian, 6-7-13
The White House has sought to justify its surveillance of millions of Americans’ phone records as anger grows over revelations that a secret court order gives the National Security Agency blanket authority to collect call data from a major phone carrier….READ MORE
Posted by bonniekgoodman on June 6, 2013
https://politicsbuzz.wordpress.com/2013/06/06/political-headlines-june-6-2013-obama-administration-defends-critical-nsa-phone-records-collection/
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