Obama 'hijacks' tech executive meeting to make 'PR pitch' on Obamacare website fix instead of dealing with NSA surveillance

[Geee]

Daily Mail:

During a White House meeting called to brief America's largest tech companies today about government overreach in electronic surveillance, President Barack Obama changed the subject – angering some meeting participants by shifting gears to address the failed launch of healthcare.gov.

 

'That wasn't what we came for,' a vice-president of a company whose CEO attended told MailOnline. 'We really didn't care for a PR pitch about how the administration is trying to salvage its internal health care tech nightmare.'

 

One executive said that meeting participants were dead-set against straying from the principal focus of the meeting – the uncomfortable and legally untenable position they are in when the National Security Agency demands access to their digital records.

 

The White House said in advance that the meeting would include a discussion of healthcare.gov, but the company executive said the only subject that mattered to the participants was the NSA.

[Geee]

Tech leaders urge Obama to 'move aggressively' on NSA reform

 

Technology industry leaders on Tuesday said they pressed President Obama to “move aggressively” on reforming the National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs during a meeting at the White House.

 

"We appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the President our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform," said the tech companies in a statement.

 

Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with CEOs from some of Silicon Valley's top companies on Tuesday to discuss “a number of issues of shared importance to the federal government and the tech sector,” including the troubled healthcare.gov website and the NSA, according to the White House.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/tech-leaders-urge-obama-to-move-aggressively-on-nsa-reform/article/2540854

[clearvision]

Did they think this was about them?

[Geee]

[Valin]

Tech leaders urge Obama to 'move aggressively' on NSA reform

 

 

 

"We appreciated the opportunity to share directly with the President our principles on government surveillance that we released last week and we urge him to move aggressively on reform," said the tech companies in a statement.

 

[clearvision]

Is that picture from this meeting?

[Valin]

Is that picture from this meeting?

Nah. The "great" whitehouse healthcare summit in 2010. Paul Ryan is explaining why this wouldn't work.

 

[Draggingtree]

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[clearvision]

@Valin, @Geee

 

It was a much more serious meeting.....

 

[Valin]

@Valin, @Geee

 

It was a much more serious meeting.....

 

What with going on vacations...shooting hoops...hitting the links, where does he find the time?