Obama Offers Plan Meant to Ease Concerns on Surveillance

[onehandle]

Source: New York Times



WASHINGTON — President Obama on Friday sought to get his administration ahead of the roiling debate over National Security Agency surveillance, releasing new information about spying activities and calling for changes aimed at bolstering public confidence that the programs do not intrude too far into Americans’ privacy.

At a time when leaks by the former N.S.A. contractor Edward J. Snowden have ripped the veil from the agency’s expansive spying both inside the United States and abroad, Mr. Obama held a news conference at which he conceded a need for greater openness and safeguards over vast American surveillance efforts.

“It’s right to ask questions about surveillance, particularly as technology is reshaping every aspect of our lives,” Mr. Obama said, adding: “It’s not enough for me, as president, to have confidence in these programs. The American people need to have confidence in them as well.”

Among other steps, Mr. Obama announced the creation of a high-level task force of outside intelligence and civil liberties specialists to advise the government about how to balance security and privacy as computer technology makes it possible to gather ever more information about people’s private lives.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/10/us/politics/obama-news-conference.html

[PSPS]

1. Spin away, president empty suit. Nobody cares what you say anymore.

[forestpath]

5. +1000

[uhnope]

7. I hear this attitude on RW talk radio propaganda everyday but not usually here. It must be sad

to be so full of hate.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

16. You'll feel better is your stop listening to your RW talk radio programs. But your choice.

[uhnope]

19. I monitor. but thx for the advice

[geek tragedy]

10. President Empty Suit is a Free Republic talking point.

it's a very good sign of a troll and otherwise miserable human being.

http://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.&ei=L10FUqCPMo-89QTCoYGQDQ&fp=bac6c1d9812ad1f8&q=obama+%22empty+suit%22&sa=N&safe=active&start=10

[Mojorabbit]

23. There was someone here using the term cut and run re snowden today

No shortage of RW crap memes today it seems

[PSPS]

25. I wouldn't know so I'll concede authority on right wing talking points to you.

I guess your informative reply falls under #3.

Worshiper/Apologist Hit Parade:

1. This is nothing new
2. I have nothing to hide
3. What are you, a freeper?
4. But Obama is better than Christie/Romney/Bush/Hitler
5. Greenwald/Flaherty/Gillum/Apuzzo/Braun is a hack
6. We have red light cameras, so this is no big deal
7. Corporations have my data anyway
8. At least Obama is trying
9. This is just the media trying to take Obama down
10. It's a misunderstanding/you are confused
11. You're a racist
12. Nobody cares about this anyway / "unfounded fears"
13. I don't like Snowden, therefore we must disregard all of this
14. Other countries do it

[geek tragedy]

32. Write like a Freeper, think like a Freeper, don't complain

when you get perceived as one.

I'm also gonna go out on a limb and guess you have not enjoyed the same level of personal success and achievement as the President, making your Freeperesque insult doubly ironic.

[DevonRex]

14. Wow. Been listening to a lot of RW radio, have you?

You're starting to use their lingo dude. Not cool here.

[WilliamPitt]

2. Failnado.

[antigop]

11. Watch it, Will. You'll be called a 'hater' or something. nt

[WilliamPitt]

12. Derpnado.

[Fuddnik]

3. I've got a plan.

Shut it the fuck down, and throw some treasonous officials in jail.

[PSPS]

4. "the roiling debate" my ass

The "debate" was over about 221 years ago with the bill of rights. But our so-called "constitutional scholar" seems ignorant of that fact and thinks this is still up for "debate." What a joke this guy has turned out to be.

[uhnope]

6. props to the prez. Ignore the haters. This is a B.F. deal!

This is not to be dismissed lightly:

a high-level task force of outside intelligence and civil liberties specialists to advise the government about how to balance security and privacy as computer technology makes it possible to gather ever more information about people’s private lives.

He's responding to the concerns of the American people. He's responding to the debate. He's doing something. Rock on.

[christx30]

28. Seems to me

He is appointing a powerless panel to pay lip service to the issue, but they won't have any veto power.
And what kind of panel does he need? Follow the 4th and 5th amendments. "Do we need George Henderson's meta data? Do we have probable cause to suspect Mr. Henderson is a terrorist? Then, no. We don't need the metadata. And we should not get it." If Mr. Henderson's name comes up in chatter, or in an interrogation, THEN go after that information.
See? That wasn't so hard. Didn't need a panel of Washington's best and the brightest. Just me. I'll take my $50,000 at your earliest convenience.

[uhnope]

30. thank you for your application. Don't call us, we'll call you.

You say,

If Mr. Henderson's name comes up in chatter, or in an interrogation, THEN go after that information.

.
Um that's exactly what they are doing. The chatter is when the US citizens' names come up.

You seem to think this world is very simple.

[christx30]

31. No. They keep metadata

For every single phone call that is made. That's the problem. Your calls are tracked, if not the content.
I still want my check

[alp227]

8. How (D) candidates can WIN in 2014: Run on anti-NSA platforms.

C'mon, DCCC and DNC, why can't y'all do it already? I wonder if that clueless figurehead in charge of the Democrats, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, understands. She actually voted against the 2006 PATRIOT Act reauthorization and against the 2011 reauthorization. WHERE IS SHE??

[TxGrandpa]

9. The best way to obfuscate is to form a committee.

"The Senate Intelligence Committee will undertake "a major review" of all government surveillance programs on American citizens, chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Friday."

She is one of the Patriot Act's strongest defenders. 'nuff said.

[WilliamPitt]

13. Want to get nothing done? Form a committee and have a meeting.

[marble falls]

17. My people'll get in touch your people. We'll do lunch.

[AnotherMcIntosh]

15. Why offer to change the spying if we have it on good authority that they're not doing it?

[marble falls]

18. That kind of talk'll get you accused of being a RW hater.

[Journeyman]

20. Here's a very simple plan. It's old, but it's been useful over the years. . .

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

[Skeeter Barnes]

21. Obama has lost people's respect on this. His promises are not reassuring.

[Solly Mack]

22. Because one isn't enough?

Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board

and that took how long to get up and running?

Snort.



http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-07-09/business/40462184_1_u-s-web-civil-liberties-oversight-board-tesla-motors

http://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/small-significant-privacy-oversight-institution-almost

https://www.federalregister.gov/agencies/privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2012/11/privacy-and-civil-liberties-oversight-board-meets-after-five-year-absence

[Mojorabbit]

24. +1000 nt

[Magoo48]

26. We don't require a plan. Just stop it, all of it.

[KG]

27. well, another great speech.

[Steerpike]

29. Very Very Smart

He never promises to ease surveillance....he wants to ease concerns about surveillance!