Police State: Obama Golf Buddy Accused Of Secret Surveillance In Latest Leak...

[paulitician]

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key was accused of misleading the public by Edward Snowden in a new series of leaks that highlight similarities in the surveillance programs overseen by both President Barack Obama and one of his closest English-speaking political friends on the world stage.

Snowden aimed his Monday morning essay at Key, the prime minister since 2008 and leader of New Zealand’s centrist, right-leaning National Party. Snowden and journalist Glenn Greenwald are leading somewhat of a high-profile anti-surveillance push in the country centered around New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau (GCSB).

“At the NSA, I routinely came across the communications of New Zealanders in my work with a mass surveillance tool we share with GCSB, called ‘X KEYSCORE,” Snowden wrote. “The GCSB provides mass surveillance data into XKEYSCORE. They also provide access to the communications of millions of New Zealanders to the NSA at places such as the GCSB facility in Waihopai, and the Prime Minister is personally aware of this fact.”

Key shot back, denying all of the claims outright.

“Claims have been made tonight that are simply wrong and that is because they are based on incomplete information. There is not, and never has been, a cable access surveillance program operating in New Zealand. There is not, and never has been, mass surveillance of New Zealanders undertaken by the GCSB,” Keysaid.

Key is a golf buddy of Obama’s, and one of the president’s closest friends among world leaders. He was at the White House in June and golfed with Obama in Hawaii this winter.

Read more: Obama Golf Buddy John Key Snared In Snowden Leak The Daily Caller
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[occupied]

I like it when conservatives act like Obama invented domestic surveillance and bear no blame for letting it out of the bottle when Cheney wanted it and got it without a peep. Even called those who objected terrorist sympathizers. It's good and right to oppose the government spying on us but it would have been better if you had did it back when there was a chance to do something about it.

 

[paulitician]

I like it when conservatives act like Obama invented domestic surveillance and bear no blame for letting it out of the bottle when Cheney wanted it and got it without a peep. Even called those who objected terrorist sympathizers. It's good and right to oppose the government spying on us but it would have been better if you had did it back when there was a chance to do something about it.

The past is the past. Strongly oppose it now too. Because it's only getting worse.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

I like it when conservatives act like Obama invented domestic surveillance and bear no blame for letting it out of the bottle when Cheney wanted it and got it without a peep. Even called those who objected terrorist sympathizers. It's good and right to oppose the government spying on us but it would have been better if you had did it back when there was a chance to do something about it.

Ya cause the defense of Obama with "But Bush did it first" works so well, right?

 

[Jarhead]

I like it when conservatives act like Obama invented domestic surveillance and bear no blame for letting it out of the bottle when Cheney wanted it and got it without a peep. Even called those who objected terrorist sympathizers. It's good and right to oppose the government spying on us but it would have been better if you had did it back when there was a chance to do something about it.

So once again you are comparing what folks like you refer to as "a great president" to what folks like you referred to as "the worst president".

In other words you are saying...

President Obama is no worse than President Bush.

I find that humorous.