Earlier today Obama uttered 5,469 words to essentially say that Edward Snowden was right in blowing the whistle on the US totalitarian “Big Brother” superspy apparatus. Of course, that won’t change the fact that Snowden is self-exiled Russia, and meanwhile in the US nothing will change except for the hiring of some intelligence czar, pretending to reform the NSA’s activities while in reality just buying himself three years of breathing room, as all future complaints will be swept under the blanket rug of “we are busy fixing it.” Anyway, for all those who don’t wish to call their friendly, neighborhood NSA call center to access an instant replay of what Obama said, here is his full speech courtesy of the WaPo as well as the full wordcloud. Sadly, since the words “constitution” and “freedom” were only mentioned 4 and 2 times respectively, they did not make their way into the cloud of most frequently uttered words.
And the full transcript (pdf):
via Zero Hedge http://ift.tt/1mhcKgW Tyler Durden