"Valerie, Can we just pick a number?" - Obama says NSA surveillance programs have saved lives, averted at least 50 terror threats

It started as one attack (NYC Subway) was "averted" by the NSA surveillances, then it was multiple, now it is 50. Senator Joseph McCarthy, Senator Johnny Iselin (from The Manchurian Candidate) and President Barack Hussein Obama better decide on which number they like. m/r



Obama says NSA surveillance programs have saved lives, averted at least 50 terror threats - Yahoo! News Canada
By Jim Kuhnhenn, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press  June 19, 2013

BERLIN - Trying to tamp down concerns about government over-reach, President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended U.S. Internet and phone surveillance programs as narrowly targeted efforts that have saved lives and thwarted at least 50 terror threats.

"This is not a situation in which we are rifling through ordinary emails" of huge numbers of citizens in the United States or elsewhere, the president declared during a news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. He called it as a "circumscribed, narrow" surveillance program.

"Lives have been saved," Obama said, adding that the program has been closely supervised by the courts to ensure that any encroachment of privacy is strictly limited.-

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