What domestic spying program?
Obama told The Tonight Show that the US has no domestic spying program and that the intelligence the country has been gathering is a “critical component to counter terrorism.”
“We don’t have a domestic spying program,” Obama stated. “What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat. That information is useful.”
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President Obama: “We don’t have a domestic spying program.” What about NSA’s surveillance of phone calls & email metadata? Look: Puppies!
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Obama complained that with Snowden and the disclosure of classified information has raised “a lot of questions for people.” However, he added that a lot of “these programs” were put in place before he came in.
“I had the programs reviewed, we put in some additional safeguards to make sure that there’s federal court oversight as well as congressional oversight that there is no spying on Americans,” the US president reassured.
According to Snowden’s lawyer Anatoly Kucherena, “he is wanted just for telling the truth.”