On the heels of a series of reports detailing the U.S. government’s practice of tracking private citizens’ phone and internet use, President Obama on Friday sought to downplay the invasiveness of the procedure, assuring a California audience that “nobody is listening to your phone calls,” and that any data tracking is governed by comprehensive oversight spanning all three branches of U.S. government.
“Nobody is listening to your telephone calls,” Mr. Obama said, speaking at an event touting his health care law in California. “That’s not what this program is about.”
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