“President Barack Obama described the programmes as vital to keeping Americans safe and said the US was “going to have to make some choices between balancing privacy and security to protect against terror”. The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President George Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012.”
But they did. So you can stop trying to justify you not understanding the difference in what those words mean.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned
“President Barack Obama described the programmes as vital to keeping Americans safe and said the US was “going to have to make some choices between balancing privacy and security to protect against terror”. The NSA access was enabled by changes to US surveillance law introduced under President George Bush and renewed under Obama in December 2012.”
We just forget anything right?