Private communications, including emails, should remain private instead of being subjected to surveillance by the National Security Agency, Red Alert Politics editor Francesca Chambers said on Friday.
Francesca appeared on The Big Picture with host Thom Hartmann, discussing NSA surveillance and the implementation of Obamacare.
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Francesca said the bipartisan support for the ‘Stop Watching Us’ rally, held on Capitol Hill on Saturday, showed how important it is to the American people that their private communications and data be just that — private.
“We don’t know how much surveillance the government is collecting on us,” she said. “It’s scary, it’s really scary.”
She added that Americans should have the same privacy rights in regard to email as they do with regard to actual mail.
On Obamacare, Francesca asserted that the hearings into HealthCare.gov were completely legitimate and are not motivated by Republican dislike of the healthcare law. She said the American people have a right to know why the site didn’t work after millions of dollars were spent on it.
Francesca also combatted the argument that Republican state governors were somehow responsible for the failure of the HealthCare.gov because they refused to set up state exchanges.
“The argument I would make back to you in response to that though is that when this legislation was created, they gave states the option to push people into the federal exchanges instead of creating their own,” Francesca said. “If they didn’t want states to do that, they shouldn’t have put that in the legislation.”
Watch the episode below. Francesca’s clip begins at 5:31.
