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Obama Is Shocked, Shocked To Learn Everyone's Phone Was Bugged
The Obama administration, which has a spotless track record in taking credit for everything that goes right (all of which is thanks to Bernanke's flooding the world with record liquidity as when the No Free Lunch bill comes due, it will be some other president's clean up), has an even more impeccable history of deflecting responsibility for all that goes wrong.
Most recently, it was the horrific rollout of Obamacare which as we observed earlier in the week, was all "someone else's fault" but certainly not the government's. Now, as the Snowden whistleblowing scandal has found its third (or fourth) wind courtesy of a furious international response following revelations that Obama was listening in to Merkel and at least 34 other world leaders', it is time for perhaps the most stunning revelation of all: you see, Obama is shocked, shocked to learn that cell phone spying - of virtually everyone on the planet - is going on in here.
From the WSJ:
The White House cut off some monitoring programs after learning of them, including the one tracking Ms. Merkel and some other world leaders, a senior U.S. official said. Other programs have been slated for termination but haven't been phased out completely yet, officials said.
The account suggests President Barack Obama went nearly five years without knowing his own spies were bugging the phones of world leaders. Officials said the NSA has so many eavesdropping operations under way that it wouldn't have been practical to brief him on all of them.
They added that the president was briefed on and approved of broader intelligence-collection "priorities," but that those below him make decisions about specific intelligence targets.
The senior U.S. official said that the current practice has been for these types of surveillance decisions to be made at the agency level. "These decisions are made at NSA," the official said. "The president doesn't sign off on this stuff." That protocol now is under review, the official added.
NSA spokeswoman Vanee Vines said NSA based its operations on priorities set across the U.S. government. "The agency's activities stem from the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, which guides prioritization for the operation, planning and programming of U.S. intelligence analysis and collection," she said.
The administration didn't end all operations involving world leaders following this summer's revelations because some of the programs are producing intelligence of use to the U.S.
Time to throw the low-cost alternative: where besides every single bank in the past 5 years have we seen this model? But more importantly, as so many were predicting, five years of zero knowledge means... it was all Bush's fault again!
Which after seeing the following snapshots from 2006, makes some sense.
It makes just as perfect sense that supposedly mid-level janitors decide which leaders of the free and not so free world they will decide to eavesdrop on without even informally informing the president.
It makes even greater sense that a government which is desperately strapped for money, can spend billions on wiretaps in Spain, where El Mundo reports, the NSA monitored 60.5 million Spanish phone calls between December 2012 and January 2013.
Because when in doubt, spend taxpayer money when not even the president has any idea why the entire world is suddenly quite angry with him and America. And then panic when the government shutdown results in the furlough of thousands of spies otherwise busy eavesdropping on Frau Merkel.
But going back to the original point: with just under 3 years to go in his term, an economy that is foundering and which not all the moneyprinting in history can offset the inevitable, a budget deficit that depsite recent dips is still the largest until 2008, does Obama actually have any idea what the US Government is spending money on, or is his daily teleprompted address the only thing that Obama actually has a hand in.
As for the punchline: remember when Obama said he would have disclosed all the Snowden revelations anyway? That is now in the running for funniest phrase of the year.
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Well then, I imagine he's going to be even more shocked when he listens to my last bugged phone call and finds out what I said about him, Dianne Feinstein, and those dipwads at the NSA.
Bring back the Cone Of Silence!!
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=cone+of+silence&qpvt=cone+of+silence&FORM=IGRE
He's a useful idiot and educated fool. The whole world can see that, and most Americans do too. His personal tragedy is yet to come. He's a mug, a fool.
Just verifies that it is really the ArchCuntMuslimHyena Val jarrett that is in charge... Obongo, she says, this is not your business... just go away and hoover Reggie again... or play golf if your lips are chapped.
I have to say, I'm shocked too...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFhrMiEvwYA
Obama finally proves he is more incompetent than Bush.
Jimmy Carter is even laughing!
Bush used the NSA to gather intel on candidate Obama in 2008. There is no way TPTB would have boosted Obama into the White House if, they didn't have some crippling dirt on him.
The SCOTUS, POTUS and congressional leaders are consolidating power in the executive branch. I can't figure out if they are useful idiots or willing conspirators.
The one thing all 3 branches agree on is moving towards a totalitarian dictatorship. Why congress would willingly sign on to their own castration is beyond me; unless the NSA has em all by the balls and sells the leverage to K street. The stick is usually more powerful than the carrot to a politician.
You dont get there unless your compromised. It's always the same MO...
You want in? Sacrifice your new born and drink the blood of a headless goat.
Who has taken over the excutive branch and who is attempting to take over the United States of America? I want names M'Fers.
..."since I've become President, the economy has recovered and the stock market is at an all time high" ... I'd be shocked if Obama can still say this come 2016.
Obama - the anti-Mandela..
> Mandela
> Not an anti-white terrorist that destroyed South Africa
Choose one. The saints of the Left are always devils
It's all Snowdens fault. If it wasn't for Snowden there wouldn't be a Spy Scandal.
Police recordings of Greek and foreign journalists for the Skouries gold mine case in Greece directed to criminalize activists
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2013/10/police-recordings-of-greek-an...
Snowden = vehicle for "rolling disclosure". There is some larger purpose for letting everyone know that they are being watched constantly ... most likely because they want to be able to control us and want us to not question the sources of their information/decisions.
In other words, the Snowden is a plant, the release is intentional, Russia is an ally of the controlling powers and the entire thing is grand theater for the masses.
Analyzing it or the information from Snowden is pointless.
Bugging your allies and the president didn't know? Really?
It doesnt matter if he knew about it or not. He's responsible. Either he knew which means he's lying(impeach), or he didn't know which makes him imcompetent(impeach again).
"It makes just as perfect sense that supposedly mid-level janitors decide which leaders of the free and not so free world they will decide to eavesdrop on without even informally informing the president."
This is the perfect example as to why the system must be turned off. There is no one in charge of who is being spied on so the low level staff (low paid staff) have the opportunity to freelance the data. This is a very low overhead business since they "work" for the gov and use the gov equipment so the sale of data is pure profit.
'shocked to learn everyone's phone was bugged'. That's like saying Hillary was shocked to find 900 FBI files sitting in her office. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forgot about that good old oldie. She looks very old these days and the election is a few years away from the presidency. Can't wait to see all of those old Clinton stories to resurface. Maybe someone will revisit the VF story.
How about this oldie of Reagan saying he didn't know about Iran Contra;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R67CH-qhXJs
Start spreading the news... http://shutupnsing.wordpress.com/2013/10/28/the-autumn-of-surrender-in-new-york/
This is a buuuulllllshiiiit excuse! Harry Truman had it right-the buck always stops at the desk of the prez.
If, for the sake of argument he is so uninformed on damned near everything going on in his regime, what the fuck use is he?? He's supposed to be the chief exec, commander in chief of the military (a frightening thought).
How stupid do you think we are?
So are we to believe the NSA is a rouge organization operating on it's own?
NSA is a rouge organization
Well, you know what they say about putting lipstick on a pig..
I'm shocked that Obana is shocked by the shocking revelations of shocked world leaders being tapped by NSA.
Looking at 2006 photo, I didn't know George Bush Jr was a Smooth Operator.