President Obama Promises To Review And Rein In U.S. Intelligence Operations

Obama Vows to Review, Rein in Intelligence Operations -- ABC News

President Obama today declined to say whether he was aware U.S. intelligence had been monitoring the German chancellor's cellphone as he chatted amiably with her four months ago.

But in an exclusive interview for the launch of ABC News/Univision joint venture Fusion, Obama assured the U.S. people that national security operations are only being used to protect them and are being reassessed to make sure the National Security Agency's growing technical spying prowess is kept under control.

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My Comment: So President Obama promises to review and rein in U.S. intelligence operations .... even though it was he and his administration that approved some of these ops.The fact that he can say all of this with a straight face is revealing in itself.