Obama Defends Surveillance Programs as Legal and Limited

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22. Well, don't worry, with people like you the tea party will win the next election and you won't have

to worry about any of it. I don't call having three judges sign off on my international phone calls spying, but that's just me. Quite frankly, people like you scare me much more than the President does. We have changed the parameters of this program. It is reviewed by all three branches of government. So apparently no one believes that our elected President is "too damn lazy, incompetent or frightened" to do what's legal. Indeed, even his worst enemies believe he is following the law. Why can't a supposed democrat give him the same courtesy?
I know this may be hard for someone like you to grasp, but people who work in the Nat'l security agency are people who could make a lot more money in the private sector. I would say that more of them than the general population care about your rights and your safety. They have dedicated their lives to trying to stop the next 9/11. The pay taxes and vote and raise kids in this country. If there are bad apples, they are few and far between. I'm much more worried about the impact of people like you in this country than I am about them.