Soothing Obama for electronic espionage - Newsnow

U.S. President Barack Obama seemed reassuring regarding the secret electronic surveillance programs, stressing that … very strictly by the executive, legislative and judicial powers.

“Congress supervises federal courts oversee,” said President Obama in an interview broadcast by public network PBS.

The Obama admitted, however, that these revelations may give rise to legitimate concerns among Americans and said he has instructed the officials involved to give the public the maximum information “without putting at greater risk of these programs”.

A former director of the National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, revealed the existence of two secret projects, one of which concerns the collection of 2006 data calls and the other, called Prism, aims to eavesdrop on communications in large social networks of foreign Internet users are outside the U.S..

Obama also denied accusations that simply returning to the policies of former President George W.. Bush and his vice-president, Dick Cheney.

U.S. President also stated that an independent commission will examine the operation of these programs.

“decided to establish a committee for the freedoms civic and personal data which consists of independent citizens, “he said. “I will meet with them and what I want to do is to create a structure and initiate a national debate, not only about these two programs, but also raises the more general problem of mass data because it does not refers only to government entities, “said.

” If you are an American, then the NSA does not listen to your phone conversations and puts no target private email unless you have a court order to do so. That the rule applies today, “said President Obama in this interview he gave Sunday before leaving for the G8 summit in Northern Ireland.

But, he added,” what the world need to understand about all of these programs has allowed us to prevent conspiracies not only here in the U.S. and elsewhere “.
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