Hayden on Obama and NSA: ‘National Security Looks Different From the Oval Office’

‘ ... than it does on the campaign from a hotel room in Iowa’

HAYDEN: “Right. Well, it's certainly what makes life in the permanent government very, very interesting. And frankly, Joe, I think the transition between Senator Obama and President Obama, national security looks different from the Oval Office than it does on the campaign from a hotel room in Iowa, and once faced with both the realities and with the responsibilities of the office, he's continued, and as you said, doubled down on many of the programs. And, Joe, that may actually be why this is so contentious right now. Because those who oppose the programs and good Americans all, but those would oppose them wanted to blame them on a particular president, President Bush. But if President Bush and President Obama by and large do the same things, it's not George Bush's program anymore, it's American's program.”
SCARBOROUGH: "It's America's program. Right."

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