Obama Was Wrong: NSA Employees Have Deliberately "Abused" Their Power

First it's "never abused their power". Then it's "never abused their power intentionally" (those tens of thousands of spying "errors" every year don't count apparently), then it's "only a few" intentional ones. Then it's a lot more - "but you should trust them anyway".

I wonder what Obama will say at his next conference on this. I think we can predict pretty well what he's going to say, though. He'll tell us exactly what we want to hear (how civil liberties are important for them and so on), but without mentioning any specific ways to stop the abuses, or if he does, the people he will put in charge to fix it will be all insiders who were leading those same abuses before, too.

But nobody should trust Obama until Clapper and Alexander get fired. Heck, I'd say impeach Obama, too, and send a very strong message to every future president that will assume the role this century that spying on own citizens, and even abusive spying against any and all foreign citizens (even abroad, spying should be done on specific targets, not everyone en mass) - that such spying is not acceptable.

I have no problem believing that there is a mutually beneficial don't ask don't tell policy going on between the president and the internal workings of the NSA.