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The following rush transcript probably contains errors and/or omissions…August 8th: NSA Documents vs. Obama on Leno Show
Rex Latchford goes off-page to observe the incredible psychological dissonance of putting NSA Documents describing what is monitored and how next to comments made by President Obama on last night’s Jay Leno show…
Downtown a ways, Amy Goodman is delivering Democracy Now! and I’m here with you on the radio. (Mincka leaves, Rex says ‘Bye’)
Of the few things that are happening, gleaned from Amy Goodman’s headlines just moments ago… It was a remarkable contrast. First we had images of the actual NSA documents depicting how the NSA searches everything: email, chats, texts, phone calls, website accesses… for the mentions of names of people of interest. You probably know or have friends who have, as a goof, mentioned the names of “enemies of the state” or proscribed words with a “hee hee, they’re probably listening” [because they are]. Well, there were the images of the documents showing how they actually collect that information.
Then, cut to President Obama, on Jay Leno’s show, in which he is denying. Deny, deny, deny, deny. “[sic] Oh no, we don’t do this, everything is good, all this stuff was put into place by George Bush before I got here, but I’ve reviewed it, and it’s really OK, we put in some safeguards…” … and it’s like, what is he talking about?
Now, in George Bush’s case… [not transcribed]…
… it’s embarassing, what’s going on. When you get right down to it, it’s mind blowing. It used to be you needed drugs to reach this state. Now all you have to do is watch the news [and listen to what political “leaders” are saying] … What’s in the water? What kind of drugs are involved? Where do I find them? Well, that’s the world we’re living in…
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Watch the incredible artistry of bull…
See also Amy Goodman’s Headlines (video, then link to text transcript below)… Democracy Now! can be heard weekdays at 2pm New York Time on Radio InfoWeb‘s main audio stream.
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 there’s — we should have a healthy skepticism about what government is doing. I had the programs reviewed. We put in some additional safeguards to make sure that there’s federal court oversight, as well as congressional oversight, that there is no spying on Americans. You know, 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.”
See also: Amy Goodman delivers headlines…
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