http://www.businessinsider.com/nsa-spying-nyt-editorial-board-obama-2013-10
The New York Times editorial board ripped the Obama administration as "pathetic" in its defenses and assurances on revelations about National Security Agency spying on foreign leaders and citizens of close world allies.
President Barack Obama wouldn't discuss on Monday his knowledge of the classified programs, but the White House and Democratic senators pledged that a review of all intelligence programs was ongoing.
"What we’ve seen over the last several years is their capacities continue to develop and expand, and that’s why I’m initiating now a review to make sure that what they’re able to do doesn’t necessarily mean what they should be doing," Obama told Fusion's Jorge Ramos.
The Times blasted that response in its editorial:
The White House response on Monday to the expanding disclosures of American spying on foreign leaders, their governments and millions of their citizens was a pathetic mix of unsatisfying assurances about reviews under way, platitudes about the need for security in an insecure age, and the odd defense that the president didn’t know that American spies had tapped the German chancellor’s cellphone for 10 years.
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