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Barack Obama: Well, in the end, and what I’ve said, and I continue to believe, is that we don’t have to sacrifice our freedom in order to achieve security. That’s a false choice. That doesn’t 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 wasn’t the case…. And so that’s 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 there’s a tradeoff doesn’t mean somehow that we’ve abandoned freedom. I don’t think anybody says we’re no longer free because we have checkpoints at airports.
What I can say unequivocally is that if you are a U.S. person, the NSA cannot listen to your telephone calls, and the NSA cannot target your emails … and have not. They cannot and have not, by law and by rule, and unless they — and usually it wouldn’t be “they,” it’d be the FBI — go to a court, and obtain a warrant, and seek probable cause, the same way it’s always been, the same way when we were growing up and we were watching movies, you want to go set up a wiretap, you got to go to a judge, show probable cause….
So point number one, if you’re a U.S. person, then NSA is not listening to your phone calls and it’s not targeting your emails unless it’s getting an individualized court order. That’s the existing rule.
Originally posted by Diabolical
How many years do we have left to go?
That's all I got to say.
He was the better candidate out of Mc Cain though.
Next time I'll stick with Hilary.
Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
I fail to see where he defended NSA spying... In fact, he denied it.
Originally posted by Diabolical
Seriously,
I don't give a chit.
Neither one are in my life, so I don't care what happens.
But neither have done service to me, to make me care.
If it doesn't deal with me personally, I could care less.
Originally posted by Diabolical
Next time I'll stick with Hilary.
Remember Ron Paul? He wasn't on their play list.
Seriously,
I don't give a chit.
Neither one are in my life, so I don't care what happens.
But neither have done service to me, to make me care.
If it doesn't deal with me personally, I could care less.
Originally posted by jude11
Many people are confused as to what a TRUE Traitor and Dictator looks like.
Now you know.
Peace
edit on 17-6-2013 by jude11 because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by seabag
reply to post by jude11
Remember Ron Paul? He wasn't on their play list.
Sept 6, 1984
We were warned almost 30 years ago!!!
...and have been warned many times since!!
"...So all of us make a decision..."