“Obama said the programs were critical to counterterrorism work. But he said more needed to be done to assure Americans they were not being spied on themselves. ‘We don’t have a domestic spying program,’ he said. ‘What we do have are some mechanisms where we can track a phone number or an email address that we know is connected to some sort of terrorist threat.’”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/06/obama-we-dont-have-a-domestic-spying-program/
