If tomorrow Obama changed his mind and decided the surveillance program was all wrong

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16. These programs are funded by congress and under congressional oversight.

They are secret. So if President Obama was against them, he would need to go to Congress where during super secret meetings he could raise his objections. Unless there is a whistle blower present, we won't know. What difference would his change of mind make? He was not alone in creating this problem, and he can not by himself solve it.

The problem, as I see it, is that information the average citizen thinks should be private is not. The court that is supposed to protect citizens seems to exist only to provide cover for the government.

Perhaps the super secret FISA Court does protect out interest. How do we know. Clearly, oversight by Congress has completely failed. If we can't trust the Judicial branch to protect the interest of American citizens, the legislative branch to provide oversight (one of t heir enumerated powers), or the executive branch to refrain from pursuing every bit of data whether it has bearing on real national security or not, why should any of those "arguing about government surveillance would change their positions, pro or con? "

President Obama did not do this alone, and can not change it alone. The entire government has failed.