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Source: Reuters
Obama open to making changes to surveillance, lawmakers say
By Mark Felsenthal and Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 1, 2013 9:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday told lawmakers he is open to changing controversial surveillance programs in order to restore public confidence and provide assurance the government is not violating citizens' privacy, participants at the meeting said.
"We understand the American people really do need to know what's going on now and what's going on in the past and get the right kind of assurances that their privacy has not been breached," said Senator Saxby Chambliss, who attended the meeting.
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Opposition to government surveillance has created an unlikely alliance of libertarian Republicans and some Democrats in Congress. The House of Representatives last week narrowly defeated an amendment to a spending bill that would have limited the NSA's scope to collect electronic information.
Obama met at the White House with Chambliss and other lawmakers who sit on the intelligence and judiciary committees. These included Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, who has been a skeptic of the NSA data collection program, and Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee on which Chambliss is the top Republican.
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By Mark Felsenthal and Patricia Zengerle
WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 1, 2013 9:07pm EDT
(Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Thursday told lawmakers he is open to changing controversial surveillance programs in order to restore public confidence and provide assurance the government is not violating citizens' privacy, participants at the meeting said.
"We understand the American people really do need to know what's going on now and what's going on in the past and get the right kind of assurances that their privacy has not been breached," said Senator Saxby Chambliss, who attended the meeting.
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Opposition to government surveillance has created an unlikely alliance of libertarian Republicans and some Democrats in Congress. The House of Representatives last week narrowly defeated an amendment to a spending bill that would have limited the NSA's scope to collect electronic information.
Obama met at the White House with Chambliss and other lawmakers who sit on the intelligence and judiciary committees. These included Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the Senate, who has been a skeptic of the NSA data collection program, and Dianne Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee on which Chambliss is the top Republican.
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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/02/us-usa-obama-surveillance-idUSBRE97103120130802
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Obama open to making changes to surveillance, lawmakers say (Original Post)
Eugene
Aug 2013
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Purveyor
(29,876 posts)1. "We understand the American people really do need to know"... Who is the 'we' Mr. President?
Why isn't it "I understand"...?
Just wondering.
usGovOwesUs3Trillion
(2,022 posts)2. Good question
Freudian slip
It seems like he is saying he has to get a group consensus?
Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)5. A bipartisan effort if you catch my drift
MisterP
(23,730 posts)4. "whatever it takes to get you depraved, traitorous subhumans to shut up" n/t