Edward Snowden Asylum Request Sent To Ecuador, Official Says

#1 - A majority of Americans did NOT accept a limitation of their freedoms.  Most Americans AND members of Congress were like mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed BS) in order to get the Patriot Act, a document written years earlier, passed.  Few Americans and members of Congress know that even today.  The Patriot Act was never to be permanent, yet the way it's been kept in perpetuity is the same way the neocons and neolibs have kept the war on terror going, i.e., through subterfuge and well-timed propaganda campaigns.  

#2 - Nowhere in a president's job title is "keeping his people safe" - I assume you mean the American people, but then again I take nothing for granted and assume you might also have meant the gang that has taken over control of the government.  "Swearing to protect and defend the Constitution", yes, that is in his job description.
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