Obama Scrambles and Calls NSA Snooping a "Ruckus"

Well Obama sees the recording of every email, text message, and phone call by an agency with no oversight as no big deal.

“If you're a U.S. person, then NSA is not listening to your phone calls and it's not targeting your emails unless it's getting an individualized court order,” Obama said in the exchange, which was recorded before the president left for Europe.

“There are two programs that were revealed by Mr. Snowden -- allegedly, since there's a criminal investigation taking place -- and they caused all the ruckus,” he told Rose. It was his only reference by name to Edward Snowden, whom the Guardian has credited with being the source for recent exposés of U.S. surveillance.

Yup, its just a "ruckus" don't you want to see who I picked for the NBA Finals? Or maybe listen to my "common sense solutions" to a bunch of stuff no one cares about? Please look at my left hand "US person" because this NSA snooping in my right is just a "ruckus." Obama does point out checks and balances in the NSA snooping.

Asked about making government surveillance more transparent, Obama replied: "It is transparent. That's why we set up the FISA court." But the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court renders its rulings in secret, and acts largely as a government rubber stamp -- turning down only a tiny handful of government requests.

Um, tiny handful? Try only one since 2009.

[The FISA court] last rejected a request back in 2009, and that was only one out of 1320. In its entire history, since 1979, the court has rejected a grand total of 11 applications. 11. Out of 33,939 applications. That's 0.03%. Not 3%. 0.03% with not a single rejection in over three years. That's not careful review. That's a rubber stamp

That rejected application in 2009 was probably accidentally sent in PDF format instead of the required Office.doc format that the FISA court requires. Also the page that contained the place for the rubber stamp was accidentally omitted. I mean you can't approve an application without the place to put the rubber stamp.