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In reply to the discussion: Many Of You May Be Interested In What THIS Guy Has To Say, Re: FISA/NSA/Snowden... [View all]1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)but you choose to disbelieve everything else President Obama says on this topic, as your second paragraph demonstrates ... President Obama has also said that no one is under "surveillance" and no e-mails are "studied" but with a warrant.
Are we now to a point where we cannot acknowledge that we are picking and choosing what information to believe based on what we believe and deciding the credibility/believability of our information source based on whether or not they report what we believe?
I agree that the money being spent on NSA programming is a lot and could go to fixing bridges, going to education, etc.; but I don't object to the money being spent as I believe it necessary for national security. But I would fund it via cancelling weapons systems like the F-35 that is battlefied obsolete and unwanted by the military ... but provides a bunch of high paying jobs (so that must fugire into the equation).