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The headline should be "The president is lying" but that would upset the readers and the sponsors. So lets just say he is "wrong", just like the NSA is just "wrong" about not collecting data on everybody.

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He had the "balls" to say on TV something to the tune of "the US doesn't have a spying program at home".

That should be enough for everybody to understand even Mr Hope-and-Change is lying now.

Just remember that the author knows the NSA is watching him, and if he goes too far (i.e. by outright saying that they or the president is lying), he might become a risk to national security. In this country, the people do not have the right to criticize the government, you know? ;)

So we should prefer self-censorship that strengthens the position of the totalitarian elements in the US government and leads to further erosion of constitutional rights?

There's no progress and no remedy for the current situation if people continue to act "reasonably" (Snowden didn't and we made progress).

Sarcasm, lazyjones. I was being sarcastic. I dream of a world where you can say what you want without getting persecuted for it, not the world represented in the following video:

"DOJ justifies searching Associated Press phone records" http://youtu.be/5CguKdc21AU

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