Holder: Trust me, the NSA’s surveillance is totally cool

[kpete]

Holder says, just be patient, or something:

Attorney General Eric Holder dismissed a new government watchdog report which declared some NSA programs illegal, insisting that the spy agency’s vast secret surveillance is on strong legal footing.

In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview on Thursday with msnbc, Holder also spoke about new voting rights legislation, Republican Voter ID laws, Wall Street prosecutions and the Obama administration’s efforts to reform the War on Drugs with more rehabilitation programs. (See video below.)

On the NSA findings, Holder said he hadn’t read the new report from the government’s privacy and civil liberties board, but noted that “at least 15 judges on about 35 occasions have said that the program itself is legal.”

When asked about judges who disagree, including a Washington federal court that rebuked the bulk data collection last month, Holder, himself a former Washington judge, contended the legal consensus is now clear.

http://www.msnbc.com/the-cycle/holder-people-just-need-be-patient
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/23/civil-liberties-board-nsa-phone-surveillance-program-likely-illegal-should-be-stopped/
http://hotair.com/archives/2014/01/24/holder-trust-me-the-nsas-surveillance-is-totally-cool/

[GoneFishin]

1. Well. If the guy who would rather bust medical marijuana sellers than fraudulent mortgage sellers

says it's cool, then it must be cool.

[tridim]

2. ^ Not a true statement

[1000words]

4. ^ Not an adequate rebuttal

[GoneFishin]

6. ^ Close enough for the point I was making.

[L0oniX]

3. "Trust me" ...This is not an old Toyota commercial.

[MisterP]

5. "be patient" just means "give me the time I need to make it irreversible, then three years later

I'll just say 'up yours, do you want the Republicans to win?'"