After reading the article by Glenn Greenwald...

[Catherina]

20. He does indeed and Snowden challenged him to take this opportunity

I wish he would but I don't see that happening.

And Obama's problem right now is bigger than just the US because people all over the world are upset, more than we are, that the US dares to collect information on billions of private citizens. And governments over the fact that the US dares to hack into their universities, their hospitals even! One thing Snowden said that made him ill was that the NSA would hack into hospitals, research centers, and when they'd make a mistake whole systems would go down. Whoops right? And the world business community concerned about industrial espionage for reasons of intellectual property theft. Those are just some examples. The outrage hasn't even begun and I don't think the trust is coming back anytime soon because the disregard for the entire world that all your data, all your research, all your secrets belong to us, is massive.

The status quo doesn't help the country, or the party, or us like you said but I don't think they're thinking that way. The bottom line is profit and to make an international profit, well you know the rest.

I wish he would. Does he have the courage? So far he hasn't shown it.

“Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney,” he said, “is the highest honor you can give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like him, (Democratic Party Senator Dianne) Feinstein, and (Republican Representative Peter) King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.”

This disclosure provides Obama an opportunity to appeal for a return to sanity, constitutional policy, and the rule of law rather than men. He still has plenty of time to go down in history as the President who looked into the abyss and stepped back, rather than leaping forward into it. I would advise he personally call for a special committee to review these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous "State Secrets" privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years in office for any wrongdoing. There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency.

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