Jeb Bush praises President Obama over NSA spying

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Jeb Bush, a likely presidential contender, said that President Barack Obama’s greatest accomplishment was keeping in place controversial spying programs at the National Security Agency. “I would say the best part of the Obama Administration would be his continuance of the protections of the homeland using the big metadata programs,” Bush said. Bush argued the NSA programs had been “enhanced” under President Obama, even if the President “never defends them or openly admits it.” The former Florida governor said the NSA’s bulk collection of Americans’ phone data was “an important service” carried out in a way that protects individual civil liberties. He lauded the Obama Administration for refusing to buckle under pressure from Democrats, civil liberties groups and some Republicans. “He has not abandoned them,” Bush said.


Jeb Bush praises President Obama over NSA spying