The President Speaks about Spying

Is anyone out there surprised that Obama split the difference between critics of the NSA and security hawks? Anyone?

I liked this line:

The bottom line is that people around the world — regardless of their nationality — should know that the United States is not spying on ordinary people who don’t threaten our national security, and that we take their privacy concerns into account.

They certainly should. But I don't know that and neither do you.