Jimmy Carter Criticizes Obama Over Surveillance Abuse

Carter criticizes drone use, domestic spying under Obama

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March 23, 2014
Former President Jimmy Carter on Sunday criticized the Obama administration’s surveillance efforts, saying the country’s use of drones has been “abused” and that he communicates by mail with foreign leaders for fear his electronic correspondences are being watched.

“I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored,” the former Democratic president told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write the letter myself, put it in the post office and mail it, because I believe if I send an email, it will be monitored.”

Carter has dealt with a situation similar to the one Obama faces with Russia taking over the Crimea region of Ukraine.

In 1980, he boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow after Russia invaded Afghanistan. However, Obama, unlike other U.S. presidents, has never consulted with him or his foundation, Carter said.

The former president said he thinks the reason is that he and Obama have differing points of view on the Israel-Palestinian situation.

“I can understand this is a sensitive issue,” Carter said. “I can live with it.”

Carter also said the National Security Agency’s collecting data on Americans’ phone calls and Internet use and the United States’ use of drones has become “extremely liberalized and I think abused by our own intelligence agencies.”

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/23/carter-criticizes-drone-use-domestic-spying-under-obama/

 

Carter is either paranoid or else he's correct about Obama. It's bad when even a Democratic former prez criticizes the current Democratic prez. But, Carter certainly has a point; most Americans don't trust Obama either.

 

It is not necessarily an either or proposition.

 

Prime example of why a logic filter would class this place up.

 

NY Times Reporter: Obama WH ‘Greatest Enemy of Press Freedom’ Today

March 24, 2014
New York Times reporter James Risen has been in a years-long legal battle against the government to reveal one of his confidential sources, even petitioning the Supreme Court to hear his case. He’s been very critical ofPresident Obama‘s administration for its “aggressive use of the powers of the government to try to rein in independent national security reporting,” and in a recent journalism forum, Risen took another shot at the White House for being an enemy of press freedom.

In fact, Risen went so far as to say the current administration is one of the biggest threats to such freedoms in a while:

[Risen] opened the conference earlier by saying the Obama administration is “the greatest enemy of press freedom that we have encountered in at least a generation.” The administration wants to “narrow the field of national security reporting,” Risen said, to “create a path for accepted reporting.” Anyone journalist who exceeds those parameters, Risen said, “will be punished.”​

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Earlier this year, New York Times editor Jill Abramson called the Obama White House the “most secretive” she’s ever dealt with. And other reporters have made similar comments about this administration.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/ny-times-reporter-obama-wh-greatest-enemy-of-press-freedom-today/

 

NSA director to Jimmy Carter: Agency not spying on your emails

March 25, 2014
The outgoing director of the National Security Agency wants former President Jimmy Carter to know: It's safe to use email.

Gen. Keith Alexander, in an exclusive interview with Fox News' Bret Baier, addressed concerns raised by the former president, who on Sunday said he uses snail mail to communicate with foreign leaders for fear his emails are being monitored.

"We're not [monitoring the emails]," Alexander said. "So he can now go back to writing emails. The reality is, we don't do that. And if we did, it would be illegal and we'd be ... held accountable and responsible."

Alexander noted that the president's review group, lawmakers and several government agencies have reviewed the NSA's practices, and "no one has found anything, zero, except for in 12 cases where people did that and we had already reported those."

Alexander is leaving the agency as Obama moves to overhaul the NSA in the wake of last year's revelations about the agency's surveillance methods -- leaked to news outlets by former contractor Edward Snowden. The president is planning to ask Congress to move legislation to end the NSA's controversial practice of holding vast amounts of phone records for years.

Alexander, in the interview with Fox News, stressed that "we don't have Americans' emails or their content of their phone calls in that database."

"It's just numbers. It's just the call detail records," he said. "Think of this in the old phone bills that you used to get that would list all the numbers that you called. Take off your name off the top, put the two phone numbers, put those in a database, that's what we have. That's it."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/201...immy-carter-agency-not-spying-on-your-emails/

 

Oh, who to believe.. who to believe......?

So, the NSA director says Carter was wrong when he assumed the government was tracking his e-mails. Oh, except for the 12 cases where they did exactly that. So, is Carter paranoid? Is the government lying? Maybe a little bit of both?

Of course, the Obama administration has been proven to to have been spying on US citizens in other areas, so their track record for openness and honesty isn't exactly stellar.

So, in this case, who is right? You decide.

 

Carter has always been truthful about how he feels on the issues. That means that occasionally republicans will point to him and say "See?"...which is kind of funny considering how they tend to feel about him, in general....that he's a "Damn Liberal!", and whatnot.

They are such "Liberal Lovers"...

 

For all his good intentions you have to keep in mind peanuts is a bible thumper. Damned from the get go.

 

All governments spy on there citizens, nothing new in it.

 

..and businesses....they're the ones who truly keep tabs on ya lol