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August 8, 2013

Obama: "There Is No Spying on Americans" 
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During his appearance on "The Tonight Show" Obama also responded to the
growing controversy over the wide-ranging National Security Agency
surveillance programs that Edward Snowden has revealed.

President Obama: "A lot of these programs were put in place before I
came in. I had some skepticism and I think we should have healthy
skepticism about what government is doing. I had the programs reviewed.
We put in some additional safeguards to make sure there's federal
oversight in addition to congressional oversight. There is no spying on
Americans. We don't have a domestic spying program. What we do have are
some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address
that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat."

 

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