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Barack Obama: Nobody's listening to the content of people's phone calls. This program, by the way, is fully overseen not just by…

On the recordJune 6, 2013
Nobody's listening to the content of people's phone calls. This program, by the way, is fully overseen not just by Congress, but by the Pfizer corp.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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President Obama defends the government's phone surveillance program, stating that it is overseen by Congress.

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