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this should endear him to his base..
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posted at 2:41 pm on June 7, 2013 by Allahpundit
A noteworthy performance by Bambi this morning in fielding the inevitable question about NSA/PRISM, for three reasons. One: As youll see in the second clip below, right before he refers to massive, unprecedented data-mining as a modest encroachment on privacy, he more or less admits that Bush was right about the practice and he was wrong. He came in as a skeptic, he says, and of course his team added lots of Hopenchange oversight magic to the legal framework they were given, but when push comes to shove, the hawks were right. Data-mining does help prevent terror attacks. Thats an interesting twist on his standard M.O. From blame Bush to credit Bush?
Two: The big takeaway was him saying nobody is listening to your telephone calls, which is both misleading and impressive as a straw man even by Os usual standards. For one thing, if WaPos report yesterday is accurate, they can read your e-mails with PRISM. The one line from that story that inspired more shivers than any other was, They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type. Reassuring the public that their phones arent bugged when their e-mails can be watched in progress is highly nuanced indeed. Beyond that, no serious critic of data-mining is claiming that it amounts to wiretapping. The criticism is that (a) the bits of data collected from phone records can reveal more than the average person might think, and (b) the slippery slope is real when it comes to surveillance. PRISM is proof enough of that. No ones listening to your phone calls yet, but give the public a few years to get used to this latest intrusion. Maybe theyll be more open to that possibility down the road, especially as terrorists get more ambitious.
all of it here
Obama: If you can?t trust government to follow the Constitution while spying, we?re going to have some problems « Hot Air
links and videos at site
SNIP:
posted at 2:41 pm on June 7, 2013 by Allahpundit
A noteworthy performance by Bambi this morning in fielding the inevitable question about NSA/PRISM, for three reasons. One: As youll see in the second clip below, right before he refers to massive, unprecedented data-mining as a modest encroachment on privacy, he more or less admits that Bush was right about the practice and he was wrong. He came in as a skeptic, he says, and of course his team added lots of Hopenchange oversight magic to the legal framework they were given, but when push comes to shove, the hawks were right. Data-mining does help prevent terror attacks. Thats an interesting twist on his standard M.O. From blame Bush to credit Bush?
Two: The big takeaway was him saying nobody is listening to your telephone calls, which is both misleading and impressive as a straw man even by Os usual standards. For one thing, if WaPos report yesterday is accurate, they can read your e-mails with PRISM. The one line from that story that inspired more shivers than any other was, They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type. Reassuring the public that their phones arent bugged when their e-mails can be watched in progress is highly nuanced indeed. Beyond that, no serious critic of data-mining is claiming that it amounts to wiretapping. The criticism is that (a) the bits of data collected from phone records can reveal more than the average person might think, and (b) the slippery slope is real when it comes to surveillance. PRISM is proof enough of that. No ones listening to your phone calls yet, but give the public a few years to get used to this latest intrusion. Maybe theyll be more open to that possibility down the road, especially as terrorists get more ambitious.
all of it here
Obama: If you can?t trust government to follow the Constitution while spying, we?re going to have some problems « Hot Air
