Within the President's first comments regarding the innocuous character of the surveillance, he said, "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress and don't trust federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."
I was struck by how out of touch that sounded at the time... Where has he been that he doesn't understand that we already have a serious problem?
The rest of this response is spent "repeating" that everything is okay and it is all being done with great oversight.
Obama's June response to the leak
Within the President's first comments regarding the innocuous character of the surveillance, he said, "If people can't trust not only the executive branch but also don't trust Congress and don't trust federal judges to make sure that we're abiding by the Constitution, due process and rule of law, then we're going to have some problems here."
I was struck by how out of touch that sounded at the time... Where has he been that he doesn't understand that we already have a serious problem?
The rest of this response is spent "repeating" that everything is okay and it is all being done with great oversight.
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