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The White House statement on the amendment is really something to behold. "... We look forward to continuing to discuss these critical issues with the American

The White House statement on the amendment is really something to behold. "... We look forward to continuing to discuss these critical issues with the American people and the Congress. However, we oppose the current effort in the House to hastily dismantle one of our Intelligence Community’s counterterrorism tools. This blunt approach is not the product of an informed, open, or deliberative process. ..." Not the product of an informed process - and whose fault is that? More... http://pastebin.com/RF5U59N0 http://pastebin.com/RF5U59N0

d23 13y ago
I'm crossing my fingers on this one. I have hoped from the get-go that Obama was trying to do some political jiu-jitsu to get the House to fight against him on the NSA thing by pretending to support it. People attack him for talking all loftily about most topics and then not getting anything done, so I found it strange that he basically didn't even pretend that the NSA scandal was bad. Keep in mind he didn't start the program; maybe he never really supported it. Everything he's tried to do has resulted in congress opposing him, so trying to change his tactics seems like the logical thing to do.