He totally abdicates on his job of oversight and passes the buck to Obama. He is basically making the same argument that Desh makes, i.e., that the real problem is that we need a Dear Leader we can trust.
This is what the majority of the GOP believes and offers. Don't kid yoursleves into thinking they are even taking the right stand due to the polticis of Obama being in the White House. Amash gets kicked off committees and this ahole is made a chairmen. A mainstream GOP president with congressional Republicans would crush what liberties are left.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...f-not-defending-nsa-surveillance-program?lite
Top GOP lawmaker accuses Obama of not defending NSA surveillance program
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized proposals announced by President Barack Obama to bring more oversight to surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency.
On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, McCaul said that in the wake of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been given asylum by Russia, Obama was belatedly “trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing…. The problem fundamentally is he’s failed to explain these programs, which are lawful, which have saved lives, (and) which have stopped terrorist plots. He has not adequately explained them or defended them.”
But while assailing Obama for not doing enough to defend the NSA surveillance, McCaul also contended that the American people didn’t trust Obama and his administration to oversee that surveillance.
“On the heels of the IRS scandal, where people don’t trust this government, this administration with their tax records, they sure don’t trust the administration with their phone records. That’s the dilemma the president’s in right now”
This is what the majority of the GOP believes and offers. Don't kid yoursleves into thinking they are even taking the right stand due to the polticis of Obama being in the White House. Amash gets kicked off committees and this ahole is made a chairmen. A mainstream GOP president with congressional Republicans would crush what liberties are left.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_new...f-not-defending-nsa-surveillance-program?lite
Top GOP lawmaker accuses Obama of not defending NSA surveillance program
By Tom Curry, National Affairs Writer, NBC News
Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, criticized proposals announced by President Barack Obama to bring more oversight to surveillance carried out by the National Security Agency.
On NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, McCaul said that in the wake of leaks from former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who has been given asylum by Russia, Obama was belatedly “trying to come up with ways to salvage the program by window dressing…. The problem fundamentally is he’s failed to explain these programs, which are lawful, which have saved lives, (and) which have stopped terrorist plots. He has not adequately explained them or defended them.”
But while assailing Obama for not doing enough to defend the NSA surveillance, McCaul also contended that the American people didn’t trust Obama and his administration to oversee that surveillance.
“On the heels of the IRS scandal, where people don’t trust this government, this administration with their tax records, they sure don’t trust the administration with their phone records. That’s the dilemma the president’s in right now”
