Obama Defends Surveillance Programs as Legal and Limited

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25. Oh yeah I am all about what's wrong with America

The disclosure of the government’s vast surveillance of American telephone records and foreigners’ e-mail and other Internet communications on Thursday served as a potent reminder that Mr. Obama continues to deploy many of the national security tools he inherited from his predecessor even as he seeks to turn the corner in the way the United States responds to terrorism.

Whatever his ambivalence about what President George W. Bush called a global war, Mr. Obama has used some of the same aggressive powers in the name of guarding national security even, in the view of critics, at the expense of civil liberties. Rather than dismantling Mr. Bush’s approach to national security, Mr. Obama has to some extent validated it and put it on a more sustainable footing.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/us/obamas-strong-embrace-of-divisive-security-tools.html?hp

Who is turning the party over to the teabaggers???

Let me further edit this to say: I don't give a fuck how our voyeurocrats sacrificed their chance to be data miners and telemarketers in the private sector so they could help the government become more totalitarian.