Dick in Chief Goes on Leno for Some Warm Fuzzies

U.S. President Barack Obama confirmed on Tuesday that he would go to Russia this fall for a G20 summit but said he was “disappointed” that Russia granted temporary asylum to former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Speaking on NBC’s “The Tonight Show” with host Jay Leno, Obama said Moscow sometimes slipped into a Cold War mentality, despite being cooperative with the United States on some issues, including counterterrorism efforts in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing.

  RT

In fact, whatever other faults Russia has, it cooperated with the U.S. BEFORE the Boston Marathon bombing, warning US intelligence agencies about the elder Tsarnaev brother’s possible terrorist proclivities. Is it Russia who has the Cold War mentality?

Asked whether the controversial surveillance programs helped lead to the intelligence that sparked the warnings, Obama said the programs were critical to counterterrorism work. But he said more needed to be done to assure Americans they were not being spied on themselves.

Not to stop Americans from being spied on by the government, but to assure them that they’re not. Even though they are.  Did he answer the question?

“We don’t have a domestic spying program,” he said.

What we have is a spying program that works domestically as well as internationally.

The odds of dying in a terrorist attack were less than dying in a car accident, Obama said.

Then why the outrageously disproportionate engorged Homeland Security business?

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.


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