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In 2007-8, Obama the candidate railed against warrantless surveillance as allowed under the Patriot Act.[1]

Yet, when he came into power, he changed his position and supported all of the NSA's programs. It was only after the Snowden revelations that he said "we need to have a national dialog" and then pushed through a law that slightly narrowed the scope of surveillance but apparently left the core of the programs intact. To our knowledge, the NSA still has a tap on AT&T's Atlantic hub that can scan billions of packets an hour. The NSA still is as capable as before, only perhaps a bit more circumspect about it. Little has changed.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVUwUCe1e-A