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Hillary Clinton: "We Need To Talk Sensibly About Spying"

dryriver writes "The Guardian reports: 'Hillary Clinton has called for a "sensible adult conversation", to be held in a transparent way, about the boundaries of state surveillance highlighted by the leaking of secret NSA files by the whistleblower Edward Snowden. In a boost to Nick Clegg, the British deputy prime minister, who is planning to start conversations within government about the oversight of Britain's intelligence agencies, the former US secretary of state said it would be wrong to shut down a debate. Clinton, who is seen as a frontrunner for the 2016 US presidential election, said at Chatham House in London: "This is a very important question. On the intelligence issue, we are democracies thank goodness, both the US and the UK. We need to have a sensible adult conversation about what is necessary to be done, and how to do it, in a way that is as transparent as it can be, with as much oversight and citizens' understanding as there can be."'"

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  1. Re:"what is necessary to be done" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And all of you clueless Obama-loving lberal weenies will still vote for her next election, essentially continuing and expanding the police-state regime of Grand Benevolent Dictator Baraq Hussein Sotero. Keep lickin' those boots, nanny-statists. It's only a matter of time before you're replaced by cheap Mexicans, and when your dole runs out, the fires of revolution will be stoked in your hearts. Then you will know what we're talking about here, the topic of conversation, which is to kick all Mexicans out of America.

    Mexicans are an urban blight - they cram 4 generations into a 2-bedroom house and breed like roaches, and those little cucarachas grow up to rob and tag the neighborhood. Mexicans moving into the neighborhood will cause your property values to sink like stones. They are loud, obnoxious, lecherous beasts.

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