Lib Admits President's Spying Excuses Not Good, 'Things Out Of Control'

BILL PRESS (29 OCTOBER 2013): Now the White House says, well we won’t admit we were spying on Angela Merkel, but we will admit the President didn’t know anything about it until last summer. Who the hell’s in charge?

BILL PRESS (15:00): I think this raises more questions than answers because if the President didn’t know about it, this is five years, five years into his presidency. What else didn’t he know about and who is making the decision. Is it plausible to you, is it believable is it acceptable that somebody else is making the decision to tap the private cell phone of Angela Merkel or Fransua Oland or Queen Elizabeth or David Cameron or you name it, the leader of any of our friendly allies, that is it acceptable that somebody other than, somebody else let say, the head of the CIA or the head of the NSA would make that decision and not tell the President of the United States. I think to me that defense ah is worse than saying the President ordered it because it just sort of shows that you know things are out of control. I mean who is in charge of our intelligence man? I gotta tell you, we need more than a, I believe we need more than a review I think we need we need a total shakeup of the NSA.
 
BILL PRESS (16:53): I don’t know about you, but I think this defense um that the President didn’t know ah is not a very good one.