As of this moment, Obama is making the case that the US government is not
eavesdropping on phone calls. Specifically, he said "nobody is listening to your
phone calls - they are just looking at phone numbers and duration of calls" and
concluded that the NSA was only engaged in "modest
encroachments." It was unclear if that clarification was meant to
put to rest fears that Big Brother has made personal privacy a thing of the
past. He further went on to add that the telephone surveillance program is fully
vetted by Congress and supervised by the Federal
Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA). In other words: Obama is making the
case that the NSA's Big Brother supervision is perfectly legal and not only
that, there are checks and balances and neither the telephonic snooping nor the
internet supervision is anything to be concerned about.
There is one problem:
Obama is lying.
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