Obama had every bit of knowledge as to what the NSA was doing likely, which puts him right in the ranks of Nixon with what was done...

what you need to understand, is that the government including the president, will lie cheat and steal to get what they want, and when they get caught, they will lie cheat and steal about lying cheating and stealing...

its been going on for a while, and Madison, Jefferson, Franklin, Lincoln and the likes all warned us what would happen if we allowed as "the people" for the situations that are now present to exist....