Them or defended them. And now hes in a bit of a mess, and ill it will you why. Because on the heels of the irs scandal, where people dont trust this government, this administration with their tax records, they sure dont trust this administration with their phone records. I think thats the dilemma the president is in right now. There is a bigger role here, ted koppel. In terms of public concerns about government, the size of government, intrusiveness of government. But isnt the trump card on National Security always what ive talked to intelligence officials about, look, if you back away from these programs, people can die . Some of these plots that we could stop with them will get through the filter. Look, youve got a couple of problems here. Problem number one is that youve got the almost infinite Technical Capability these days of funding information by intruding on peoples privacy. Once you have that capability, it becomes very difficult to keep it in check. Thats what the president
Welcomes sort of like the ceo who gets an angry letter yet writes back and says thank you for your interest in our surveillance programs. But its top of the ageneral da for two months. The president spoke out about snowden during his press conference on friday and said the following. I dont think mr. Snowden was a patriot. As i said in my opening remarks, i called for a thorough review of our surveillance operations before mr. Snowden made these links. I actually think we would have got on the same place, and we would have done so without putting at risk our National Security. Chairman mccaul, do you believe that, that this administration really did welcome the debate, that he would have reviewed these surveillance programs were it not for Edward Snowden . I see no evidence of that. I think snowden came out, leaked this information, and the white house has been backtracking ever since. I think when the story initially broke, the president went under cover and finally came out last frid
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Passage . Talk to both sides including the congressmen leading the fight against reform. End of an era. The venerable the Washington Post is sold to amazons jeff bez bezos. Was what does it say about the future of traditional media . Inside analyst from the Washington Posts David Ignatius and david gross of the New York Times. All of that ahead on memeet th press this sunday morning, august 11th. Good sunday morning. President obama is on vacation, congress is out of town, and although we are in the dog days of summer, the battle to win the hearts and minds of the American People on a range of issues is is in full force. The Obama Administration is finding tough opposition to its agenda, while the gop is divided as well on how to move ahead. Friday, president obama announced changes to the u. S. Surveillance program so many people are talking about, including a change in how the nsa collects phone records, more transparency by the secret foreign intelligence court, thats the fisa court