Rep. Peter King: Obama "Catering" To Snowden With "Apology Talk"
REP. PETER KING (R-NY): This is a terrible failure of leadership. This is the NSA version of the apology talk -- of the Obama apology talk.
This is a successful program. The NSA program is successful. And yet, the president is allowing Edward Snowden, a traitor, to pull the puppet strings. This man is a traitor to our country. He's been indicted for espionage in time of war, and the president somehow feels he has to cater to him.
The reason why the American people might be confused, or the American people might have concerns, is because for the last two months since this issue has been out there, the president has been AWOL. He's bean MIA, except maybe the first day or two. Since then, he's been silent.
Instead, you have Republicans like Mike Rogers out there. You have Saxby Chambliss. You have myself. You have Lindsey Graham. You have Dianne Feinstein.
No president. Nobody from the administration actively defending his program. And in time of war, to be somehow setting up a task force to tell him what he should be doing -- can you imagine Franklin Roosevelt or Harry Truman or Winston Churchill doing this? We are at war. And if he wants to make reforms, some changes, every program we have is always susceptible to reform.
But to be silent about it and suddenly jump because Edward Snowden has revealed secrets and has put our country at risk, somehow, it's like a moral equivalency. Snowden has one way of doing it, President Obama has another way of doing it. I wish he showed the same anger toward Edward Snowden as he did toward Republicans on Obamacare.
There was no outrage there when he was asked, "Do you think he's a patriot?" He said, "No, I don't think he is." What do you mean you don't think he is? This man's a traitor. He's indicted by espionage by his administration in time of war.
So, again, I just was -- to me, commander-in-chief should show much more war time leadership than has been show by the president on this issue, on a very, very successful program.
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