Obama 'Hijacks' Tech Executive Meeting To Make 'PR Pitch' On Obamacare Website Fix Instead Of Dealing With NSA Surveillance -- Daily Mail
* 'We didn't really care for a PR pitch' about Obamacare, said one executive
* The White House telegraphed in advance that the president wanted to talk up his efforts to fix healthcare.gov, but no one in the room was interested
* Tech executives gathered in the Roosevelt Room to discuss the NSA's overreach in seizing their digital records
* A federal judge ruled Monday that the practice violates the U.S. Constitution's guarantees against unreasonable searches
During a White House meeting called to brief America's largest tech companies today about government overreach in electronic surveillance, President Barack Obama changed the subject – angering some meeting participants by shifting gears to address the failed launch of healthcare.gov.
'That wasn't what we came for,' a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline. 'We really didn't care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.'
One executive said that meeting participants were dead-set against straying from the principal focus of the meeting – the uncomfortable and legally untenable position they are in when the National Security Agency demands access to their digital records.
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Update: Tech companies call for 'aggressive' NSA reforms at White House meeting -- The Guardian
My Comment: As I had predicted earlier today .... this meeting became a "bust".
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