My transcription of an interesting part of his talk: ""I don't have an interest, and the people of the NSA don't have an interest, in doing anything other than

My transcription of an interesting part of his talk: ""I don't have an interest, and the people of the NSA don't have an interest, in doing anything other than making sure that where we can prevent a terrorist attack; where we can get information ahead of time, that we're able to carry out that critical task. We do not have an interest in doing anything other than that. And we've tried to set up a system that is as failsafe as far as we've been able to think of, to make sure that these programs are not abused. But people may have better ideas. And people may wanna jigger slightly sort of the balance between uh, the information that we can get, vs. the incremental encroachments on privacy that if haven't already taken place might take place in a future administration (or as technologies develop further). And the other thing that's happening is that as technology develops further, technology itself may provide us some additional safeguards. So for example if people don't have confidence that the law, the checks and balances of the court, and congress, are sufficient to give us confidence that government's not snooping. Well, maybe we can embed technologies in there that prevent the snooping regardless of what government wants to do. I mean there may be some technological fixes that provide another layer of assurance. And so those are the kinds of things that I'm looking forward to having a conversation about." -- Obama