While on a visit to Berlin, President Barack Obama defended controversial U.S. intelligence methods recently made public, including government monitoring emails and phone conversations of citizens.
"This is not a situation in which we are rifling through the ordinary emails of German citizens or American citizens or French citizens or anybody else," Obama said Wednesday. "This is not a situation where we simply go into the Internet and start searching any way we want. This is a circumscribed system directed at us being able to protect our people and all of it is done under the oversight of the courts."
An Al-Qaeda plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange was among more than 50 terrorist acts thwarted by top-secret surveillance programs since the 9/11 attacks, security officials said Tuesday, according to CNN.
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