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Top GOP lawmaker accuses Obama of not defending NSA surveillance program
Source: NBC News
Top GOP lawmaker accuses Obama of not defending NSA surveillance program
Updated 1 hour ago
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized proposals announced by President Barack Obama to bring more oversight to surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency.
On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, McCaul said that in the wake of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been given asylum by Russia, Obama was belatedly “trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing…. The problem fundamentally is he’s failed to explain these programs, which are lawful, which have saved lives, (and) which have stopped terrorist plots. He has not adequately explained them or defended them.”
But while assailing Obama for not doing enough to defend the NSA surveillance, McCaul also contended that the American people didn’t trust Obama and his administration to oversee that surveillance.
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Updated 1 hour ago
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized proposals announced by President Barack Obama to bring more oversight to surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency.
On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, McCaul said that in the wake of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been given asylum by Russia, Obama was belatedly “trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing…. The problem fundamentally is he’s failed to explain these programs, which are lawful, which have saved lives, (and) which have stopped terrorist plots. He has not adequately explained them or defended them.”
But while assailing Obama for not doing enough to defend the NSA surveillance, McCaul also contended that the American people didn’t trust Obama and his administration to oversee that surveillance.
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Read more: http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/11/19975169-top-gop-lawmaker-accuses-obama-of-not-defending-nsa-surveillance-program
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