Obama defends surveillance programs

Google – AFP, 7 June 2013

US President Barack Obama is pictured June 7, 2013 (AFP, Jewel Samad)

SAN JOSE, California — US President Barack Obama mounted a staunch defense Friday of just exposed spy agency surveillance programs, telling Americans "nobody is listening to your telephone calls."

Obama also said there was a tradeoff to be made between national security and people's privacy, though he said it was right that the exact balance between the two should be publicly debated.

He argued that a National Security Agency (NSA) program to sweep up telephone numbers and data on calls -- but not conversations themselves -- had been repeatedly authorized by Congress and were overseen by a special court.

He also hit out what he said was the "hype" over the programs revealed in a dizzying 24 hours of revelations in newspaper reports over the last two days.

"Nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program's about," Obama said, noting that intelligence agents who did want to listen to content of calls had to go back to a federal judge for authorization.

Obama also said that a separate program, known as PRISM, targeting foreign terrorists and tapping into the servers of nine top Internet firms was not aimed at anybody in the United States.

"This does not apply to US citizens. And it does not apply to people living in the United States," Obama said.

Civil liberties and privacy groups have raised alarm at the two programs, reported by the Guardian and Washington Post newspapers, warning they are "Orwellian" and could be unconstitutional.

Obama said he welcomed the debate, but warned that the programs had previously been kept under wraps to avoid tipping off America's enemies.

"I think it's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We're going to have to make some choices as a society."

A slide depicting the top-secret PRISM program

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Matthew’s Message - June 11, 2013 - (Matthew channelled by Suzanne Ward) New

“.. This is an appropriate place to address questions that many readers have asked: How can US President Obama defend the National Security Agency’s collection of data from citizens’ private telephone conversations and Internet records? Why did he sign the Monsanto Protection Act? Congressional actions are public knowledge, but what goes on behind closed doors is not known, and we shall tell you what is relevant to these two situations.

President Obama defended NSA’s data gathering, which was authorized in the Patriot Act passed during George W. Bush’s administration, on the authentic basis that it has led to discovering and thwarting numerous terrorist plans. What the president cannot say—and Bush never would—is that the most extensive terrorist acts that met failure and most of the lesser plots that also got shot down were those devised by the CIA faction under Illuminati control.

Neither can Obama disclose that ETs are working in the NSA and other agencies in that country and in several others. They are collecting and analyzing information on all Illuminati activities around the globe and using it to weaken their operations and obtain evidence for prosecution. When this has served its purpose—bringing to its final moment the Illuminati reign—the Patriot Act and also Homeland Security will come to an end.

As for the Monsanto Protection Act, Illuminati spokespersons told the president that if he vetoed it, Congress would override it. Furthermore, they would intensify their efforts to overturn the Affordable Healthcare Act, block legislation that could relieve some immigration issues, and doom attempts to resolve international conflicts by rational discussions instead of belligerent confrontation.

That is the “down-to-Earth” reason, you could say, that Obama signed the bill, but there is another facet of this that the Illuminati bloc doesn’t know. Despite their threats, the president was not going to sign the Act—he did so because ETs close to him advised it. Their higher perspective was that citizens’ outrage at this insidious bill needs to motivate them to force its nullification. The people must exercise their right and responsibility to demand that their elected officials end stubborn partisanship, stop letting lobbyists’ money dictate their votes on legislation, and start serving the best interests of the country.

By no means does this apply only to the United States! Governments in every country must start serving the needs of their people because this goes to the very heart of Earth’s Golden Age and soul evolvement! ..”