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Attorney general and ultimately a judge and a jury. so i can t weigh in specifically on this case at this point. i ll make i ll try to see if i can get at the spirit of the question even if i can t talk about the specifics. i have said before and i believe that this is an important conversation that we needed to have. i have also said before that the way in which these disclosures happened have been have been damaging to the united states. and damaging to our intelligence capabilitie capabilities. and i think that there was a way for us to have this conversation without that being. i ll give you just one specific example. the fact of the matter is that the united states, for all our warts, is a country that abides ....
Still looking for options, are still concerned about what they re going to be doing next year, and we just wanted to make sure that the hardship provision that was already existing in the lawwit also potentially apply to somebody who had problems during this transition period. so that s the specifics of this latest change. you re making a broader point than i think is fair, and that is that in a big project like this, that what we are constantly doing is looking, is this working the way it s supposed to? if there are adjustments that can be made to smooth out the transition, we should make them. but they don t go to the core of the law. first of all, the core of the law is that for 85% of the population, all they have been getting is free preventive care, ....
By the rule of law, that cares deeply about privacy, that cares about civil liberties, that cares about our constitution. and as a consequence of these disclosures, we have countries who actually do the things that mr. snowden says he s worried about very explicitly, engaging in surveillance of their own citizens, targeting political dissidents. targeting and suppressing the press. who somehow are able to sit on the sidelines and act as if it s the united states that has problems when it comes to surveillance and intelligence operations. and that s a pretty distorted view of what s going on out there. so i think that as important and as necessary as this debate has ....
It was used. and that it was a useful tool working with other tools in the intelligence community to insure that if we have a thread on a potential terrorist threat, that that can be followed effectively. what i have also said, though, is in light of the disclosures that have taken place, it is clear that whatever benefits the configuration of this particular program may have, may be outweighed by the concerns that people have on its potential abuse. if that s the case, there may be another way of skinning the cat. so we just keep on going at this stuff, and saying, can we do this better? can we do this more effectively? i think the panel s recommendations are consistent with that. so if you had a chance to read the overall recommendations, what they were very clear about ....
happy birthday. sweet, right? except elvis was born in january. he died on this day on august 16th, 1977. plus, check this out. the group swarms into a maryland convenience store and robs it in a stunning blur. it is the latest example of crime by flash mob. and we ll talk live tonight to the police chief now hoping the same tools used to organize the outrages help him round up the thiefs. let s begin, though, in iowa, center stage in american politics at the moment. president obama is there and he sat down today with cnn s wolf blitzer. on the critical issue of jobs the president complained the partisan gridlock here in washington is blocking progress, but he also conceded his re-election is at risk if things don t get better soon. ultimately the buck stops with me. i m going to be accountable. i think people understand that a lot of these problems were decades in the making. people understand that this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression, ....