WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obayma defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent — even though they are authorized in secret.
“It is transparent,” Obama told PBS’s Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. “That’s why we set up the FISA court,” he added, referring to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that authorizes two recently disclosed programs: one that gathers U.S. phone records and another that is designed to track the use of U.S.-based Internet servers by foreigners with possible links to terrorism.
The location of FISA courts is secret. The sessions are closed. The orders that result from hearings in which only government lawyers are present are classified.[/quote][/quote]
NSR: This shit would be funny as hell, if it weren’t so fucking terrifying.
Gotta love the balls on Obama, though. This dude has mastered the art of outright lying into the camera. His feigned outrage over the IRS kerfuffle was priceless. As was his assertion that he found out about it whilst reading the newspaper. Shoulda known that was BS right there. Who friggin reads the papers anymore, anyway?
Brave New World, baby. This shit is as much Aldous Huxley as it is George Orwell.
