Monday, June 10, 2013

Obama on NSA spying: "Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?"



An amusing thing about this NSA story is Barack Obama's response that he "welcomes" a debate about government surveillance. He has also said, "[w]e're going to have to make some choices as a society."

But of course, precisely the problem with the NSA program is that there could be no public debate because the whole thing was steeped in secrecy. The only reason we're having the debate now is because the whole program was leaked by a whistleblower--a whistleblower that Obama will almost certainly prosecute to the fullest extent of the law.

The whole thing reminds me of when George got busted for having sex with the cleaning lady at work.

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