This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security. Its purpose is to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the United States, our friends and allies. Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.
I must say that whenever I bother to check into one of these "disturbing allegations", it turns out there's no there there. Turns out the "hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people inside the United States" being surveiled are those with "known links to al Qaeda and related terrorist organizations". And it turns out that our rouge president and his NSA have briefed Congressional leaders "more than a dozen times on this authorization and the activities conducted under it".
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