Obama Defends Surveillance
Published: August 2013 By Abiodun Giwa
President Obama
Amid security concerns leading to closure of more than nine American embassies,
President Barack Obama at a White House press conference speaks on the need to
agree on security surveillance to keep America safe, build a strong middle class,
health-care hope, reasons for shaky relationship with Russia among other issues.
"We cannot completely eliminate terrorism, what we can do is to weaken them and
ensure they are not able to carry out the type of 9/11 attack," he said and explains
government's efforts at ensuring it does not encroach unnecessarily on Americans'
privacy and liberty, and what is being done to keep the surveillance program from
official abuse.
The president says when people like Ben Bernanke and Susan Rice are getting slapped around in the press,
someone should stand up for them, showing displeasure for overt criticism of the two.
The president also mentions the issue of gay and lesbian athletes and his expectation of medals from them in the
forthcoming Olympic holding in Russia - a country that disapproves and denies gay and lesbians equality. He says
that America and Russia disagree on several issues. Edward Snowden, who not a patriot at home, is just only one of
the issues.
Two areas put the president under pressure over questions on Al-Queda seemingly formidable operations after his
claim of its decimation and operation of the health-care in the country.
He says Al-Queda has broken apart and weak and no longer has operational capacity, although admitting it is still
capable o do harm and capacity to go after embassies and businesses.
The health-care, he says, has benefited children under 26 through their parents, while mammogram, contraception
and affordable care act are already operating under the health-care program, and the remaining percentage of the
population not yet covered will soon begin to benefit.
President Barack Obama at a White House press conference speaks on the need to
agree on security surveillance to keep America safe, build a strong middle class,
health-care hope, reasons for shaky relationship with Russia among other issues.
"We cannot completely eliminate terrorism, what we can do is to weaken them and
ensure they are not able to carry out the type of 9/11 attack," he said and explains
government's efforts at ensuring it does not encroach unnecessarily on Americans'
privacy and liberty, and what is being done to keep the surveillance program from
official abuse.
The president says when people like Ben Bernanke and Susan Rice are getting slapped around in the press,
someone should stand up for them, showing displeasure for overt criticism of the two.
The president also mentions the issue of gay and lesbian athletes and his expectation of medals from them in the
forthcoming Olympic holding in Russia - a country that disapproves and denies gay and lesbians equality. He says
that America and Russia disagree on several issues. Edward Snowden, who not a patriot at home, is just only one of
the issues.
Two areas put the president under pressure over questions on Al-Queda seemingly formidable operations after his
claim of its decimation and operation of the health-care in the country.
He says Al-Queda has broken apart and weak and no longer has operational capacity, although admitting it is still
capable o do harm and capacity to go after embassies and businesses.
The health-care, he says, has benefited children under 26 through their parents, while mammogram, contraception
and affordable care act are already operating under the health-care program, and the remaining percentage of the
population not yet covered will soon begin to benefit.
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