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Comment by Maria De Wind on June 16, 2013 at 12:35am

Comment by Christopher on June 15, 2013 at 11:23pm

"The hypocrisy is deafening"

The perfect bureaucrat and politician, is the person who makes no decisions and escapes all responsibility - Brooks Atkinson.

Well; we know he's made lots of decisions - now we'll have to wait and see if he escapes the responsibility.

Comment by Christopher on June 14, 2013 at 11:40am

"The ignorance of one voter in a democracy, impairs the security of us all."

Good one VooDoo6Actual

Comment by Christopher on June 13, 2013 at 2:19pm

I'm with you on that H●ȴȴɣwͼͽd.

Thanks to the past and present foreign policies of the major Western Nations, that being attributed to their many proxy wars, and their so called 'campaigns', better now described as "preemptive wars" - I have never felt so 'unsafe' and or, insecure.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear - General Douglas MacArthur.

Comment by Christopher on June 13, 2013 at 2:03pm

“You can't have 100% security and 100% privacy”.

Obama defends NSA's secret 'data-mining' and tries to dismiss it as 'a modest encroachment'.

PRISM data-mining program was launched in 2007 with approval from special federal judges

Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Skype, AOL and PalTalk are involved in the spying program.

The UK has had access to the PRISM data since at least 2010

Details of data collection were outlined in classified 41-slide PowerPoint presentation that was leaked by an intelligence officer.

PRISM was exposed one day after it was revealed, that the NSA has been collecting telephone records of Verizon customers.

It is largest anti-terror intelligence-gathering operation since 9/11.

President Obama delivered a passionate defense on Friday, of national security programs, that secretly acquire information about Americans' phone calls; saying criticism of them is all 'hype.'

'My assessment and my team's assessment was that [the programs] help us prevent terrorist attacks and that the modest encroachments on privacy, that are involved in getting phone numbers or duration [of calls] without a name attached... It was worth us doing.'

Obama made the remarks at a press conference in response to revelations about two separate programs used to spy on American citizens and foreign nationals.

One program involves the collection of U.S. Verizon customers phone records. The other program - dubbed PRISM - allows the government to scour the Internet usage of foreign nationals overseas, who use any of nine U.S.-based internet providers such as Microsoft and Google.

'I think it's important to understand that you can't have 100 percent security and then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience,' Obama said. 'We're going to have to make some choices as a society.'

Obama said the PRISM program does not involve monitoring the email content of U.S. citizens or anyone living in the U.S., and he repeatedly stated that both programs - the phone spying and PRISM - have been approved by Congress.

But Director of National Intelligence James Clapper denounced the disclosure of highly secret documents Thursday and sought to set the record straight about how the government collects intelligence about people's telephone and Internet use.

He called the disclosure of an Internet surveillance program 'reprehensible' and said it risks Americans' security.

He said a leak that revealed a program to collect phone records would affect how America's enemies behave and make it harder to understand their intentions.

'The unauthorized disclosure of a top secret U.S. court document threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation,' Clapper said in an unusual late-night statement.

Source: http://www.activistpost.com/2013/06/the-constitution-doesnt-guarant...

Comment by Central Scrutinizer on June 13, 2013 at 2:03pm

then to hell w/ your security ya usurping prick, we'll take the 100% privacy then