Marco Rubio Quotes
Everybody spies on everybody.
While it is true that almost all nations have intelligence agencies and collect intelligence about both friends and foes, our allies did not bug the personal phones of leaders of friendly countries and were very distressed when they discovered that the US NSA had access to the personal calls of world leaders including the leaders of Brazil, Germany and France. Rubio and others believed that they only reason our allies had not done so is that they did not have the technical capability to do so; otherwise they would have been bugging our Presidential and cabinet level phones. President Obama ordered the practice stopped with respect to our allies.
Marco Rubio, U. S. Senator (Republican, FL), Responding to complaints that the United States NSA had been bugging the personal cell phones of national leaders, Press Statement, October 25, 2013
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The first non-PRI President in over 70 years.
He was referring to the testimony given before the Senate of James R. Clapper, U. S. Director of National Intelligence. He denied that the NSA was collecting data on millions of American communications. Then Edward Snowden revealed that the NSA was capturing data on ALL U. S. phone calls and e-mails. See {634917} for details on the false testimony.
He was referring to the power of the United States in cyber to hack into the computers, e-mail and phones of foreign leaders. Many other americans wouod argue that a more imoiortant reason to consuct this kind of surveiulance was to obtain warnings about dangers to America and/or Americans abroad. Still ohters wold agree with Atone but unlike Sone who feels that this is morally and politically wrong, they think that there is noting wrong with us using our power to promote the Amercian agenda. There has always been a part of America that was evengelical for the free democracy with civil rights protected even from government that America uniquely developed. And then there are some American wold be imperialists. This is an issue on which Americans have desagreed since our founding.
Marco Antonio Rubio is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Florida. A Republican, he previously served as speaker of the Florida House of Representatives. Rubio unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for president of the United States in 2016, winning presidential primaries in Minnesota, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
