The Guardian Article is a Must Read!
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He's always "the Perfect Lawyer" in his parsing of his speech while the Speech writers do soaring language to try to make him quotable for Posterity. So that the "WOW" factor of his clever Speech Writers overwhelms his obfuscating, waffling "Lawyer Speaks" where the Buck is always passed to Justice Department or "Other Agencies" and Congress to do the work that he doesn't want to commit to or be Held Accountable For!
I read the Transcript of the Speech. It was all over the place saying pretty much nothing that we could count on for reforms...because it's up to "those other guys."
I agree with your post and thanks for the Links.
I think this fits over here with Progressive Media Resources because the Guardian is a voice that we don't get much of over here in the US with our own faltering Media.
I have to get to those COMMENTS to read...but, it's bedtime here in US...Will do tomorrow! And thanks for the Crosspost!
Snips from Guardian:
The president also rejected a recommendation from his handpicked surveillance panel to place judicial oversight over the FBI’s practice of issuing a nonjudicial subpoena known as a National Security Letter for the records of US businesses. But Obama proposed allowing businesses greater, but as yet unspecified, ability to discuss those letters, which are currently under a gag order.
Much of the substance of Obama’s proposals remain undefined. The telephone companies have resisted having to store customer data for additional periods of time on behalf of the NSA, and any new third-party private storehouse of metadata would have to be created from scratch.
The lack of clarity places increasing pressure on Congress to ultimately resolve many of the complexities of surveillance – creating effectively a new round of jockeying on Capitol Hill between privacy advocates and the NSA’s allies, who fear losing what Obama described as a valuable tool for determining domestic connections to terrorism.
"Now it's up to the courts, Congress, and the public to ensure that real reform happens, including stopping all bulk surveillance – not just telephone records collection,” said Cindy Cohn, legal director of the Electronic Freedom Foundation.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/17/obama-nsa-reforms-end-storage-americans-call-data#start-of-comments
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