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…“Here, there is no doubt that this massive illegal seizure had to be authorized and approved at the highest levels of the executive branch, which necessarily leads to the president, attorney general and the director of the NSA,” Klayman said in a statement.
These violations of free speech, prohibitions against unreasonable search and seizure, and due process rights are unprecedented in American history,” Klayman said. “They make the fictional scenarios depicted in the literary works of George Orwell’s [1984] and Ayn Rand’s ‘Atlas Shrugged’ look tame, particularly when coupled with other burgeoning government scandals concerning the IRS, the equally illegal seizure of phone records of Fox News and AP, and other abuses of power.”
However, Obama claimed on Friday after speaking on the Affordable Health Care Act in California that “nobody is listening to your telephone calls.”,,.
http://www.activistpost.com/2013/06/obama-defends-massive-surveillance.html#more
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With the PRISM program, which allows the NSA to directly, warrantlessly spy on virtually all communications on the Internet, and other NSA schemes surveilling literally every phone call made in the United States, America has struck the “right balance” between privacy and government power, according to President Barack Obama, adding that spying on the myriad details of Americans’ lives actually protects civil liberties.
Obama insisted it was impossible to have “100 percent security and also have 100 percent privacy,” adding that it was up to the government to make the choice. It seems the answer was to put the sliding scale all the way to the authoritarian side, ushering in a privacy-free era of always-on surveillance…
http://news.antiwar.com/2013/06/07/obama-mass-internet-surveillance-the-right-balance-on-privacy/
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