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June 18, 2013 02:28 am GMT
President Obama finally took a sit-down interview on the National Security Agency scandal and we’ve pasted a partial transcript below. Disappointingly, most of it is (very) generic and defensive. But, there is one important takeaway: President Obama couldn’t answer whether oversight courts (FISA) have ever rejected a single NSA spying request. PBS’s Charlie Rose asked, pointedly, “has FISA court turned down any request?” The president appears to bumble through the answer, “The because the first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small number one. Number two, folks dont go with a query unless theyve got a pretty good suspicion.” This is problematic, since leaker Edward Snowden has claimed that the FISA courts are essentially a “rubber stamp” for any NSA investigations. As a result, they routinely exploit legal and technical loopholes to spy on Americans with direct and indirect ties to foreign suspects. The rest of the partial transcript shows Obama defending the program, claiming that it doesn’t permit broad spying on U.S. citizens, and touting his civil liberties record. Transcript below (via BuzzFeed): Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what Ive said, and I continue to believe, is that we dont have to sacrifice our freedom in order to achieve security. Thats a false choice. That doesnt mean that there are not tradeoffs involved in any given program, in any given action that we take. So all of us make a decision that we go through a whole bunch of security at airports, which when we were growing up that wasnt the case. And so thats a tradeoff we make, the same way we make a tradeoff about drunk driving. We say, Occasionally there are going to be checkpoints. They may be intrusive. To say theres a tradeoff doesnt mean somehow that weve abandoned freedom. I dont think anybody says were no longer free because we have checkpoints at airports. Charlie Rose: But there is a balance here. Barack Obama: But there is a balance, so Im going to get to your get to your question. The way I view it, my job is both to protect the American people and to protect the American way of life, which includes our privacy. And so every program that we engage in, what Ive said is Lets examine and make sure that were making the right tradeoffs. Now, with respect to the NSA,
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In First NSA Interview, Obama Can't Confirm If Courts Ever Rejected Spying Requests
President Obama finally took a sit-down interview on the National Security Agency scandal and we’ve pasted a partial transcript below. Disappointingly, most of it is (very) generic and defensive. But, there is one important takeaway: President Obama couldn’t answer whether oversight courts (FISA) have ever rejected a single NSA spying request. PBS’s Charlie Rose asked, pointedly, “has FISA court turned down any request?” The president appears to bumble through the answer, “The because the first of all, Charlie, the number of requests are surprisingly small number one. Number two, folks dont go with a query unless theyve got a pretty good suspicion.” This is problematic, since leaker Edward Snowden has claimed that the FISA courts are essentially a “rubber stamp” for any NSA investigations. As a result, they routinely exploit legal and technical loopholes to spy on Americans with direct and indirect ties to foreign suspects. The rest of the partial transcript shows Obama defending the program, claiming that it doesn’t permit broad spying on U.S. citizens, and touting his civil liberties record. Transcript below (via BuzzFeed): Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what Ive said, and I continue to believe, is that we dont have to sacrifice our freedom in order to achieve security. Thats a false choice. That doesnt mean that there are not tradeoffs involved in any given program, in any given action that we take. So all of us make a decision that we go through a whole bunch of security at airports, which when we were growing up that wasnt the case. And so thats a tradeoff we make, the same way we make a tradeoff about drunk driving. We say, Occasionally there are going to be checkpoints. They may be intrusive. To say theres a tradeoff doesnt mean somehow that weve abandoned freedom. I dont think anybody says were no longer free because we have checkpoints at airports. Charlie Rose: But there is a balance here. Barack Obama: But there is a balance, so Im going to get to your get to your question. The way I view it, my job is both to protect the American people and to protect the American way of life, which includes our privacy. And so every program that we engage in, what Ive said is Lets examine and make sure that were making the right tradeoffs. Now, with respect to the NSA,Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/7yWi6B2GV3Q/
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