Barack Obama Quotes, Phones Quotes, Nsa Quotes

When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation.

3 years ago

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I can assure you, this is not about spying on the American people.

4 years ago

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Good things come in small packages.

4 years ago

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Such technological tools ... are helping us now in the hot war against terrorists who would bomb this theater if they had the capacity to do so.

4 years ago

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The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world.

3 years ago

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Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple.

3 years ago

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Accusations fit on Greenwald really sounds like he's against all surveillance unless you can find a guy with the Al Qaeda card, wearing an Al Qaeda baseball cap, an Al Qaeda uniform.

4 years ago

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I'm a strong believer in strong encryption.

3 years ago

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Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect.

3 years ago

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We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties.

3 years ago

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So I think it's important to understand that your duly elected representatives have been consistently informed about exactly what we're doing.

3 years ago

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I wouldn't consider them acts of war, but I would consider them acts of property damage, commercial theft that are serious.

3 years ago

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Nobody is listening to your telephone calls.

3 years ago

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We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans.

3 years ago

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My relationship with Silicon Valley and the tech community historically has been really good. Many of these folks are my friends.

3 years ago

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One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy.

3 years ago

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What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.

3 years ago

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US intelligence agencies will only use such data to meet specific security requirements: counterintelligence, counterterrorism, counterproliferation, cybersecurity, force protection for our troops and allies, and combating transnational crime, including sanctions evasion.

3 years ago

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I don't welcome leaks. There's a reason why these programs are classified.

3 years ago

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With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States.

3 years ago

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