Because Chicago Jesus never misspeaks.
Via The Hill:
The White House said Monday that President Obama stood by his remark to comedian Jay Leno that “there is no spying on Americans,” despite a report in The Washington Post last week revealing that the National Security Agency violated its own privacy rules on thousands of occasions.
White House spokesman Josh Earnest said that the story, based on an internal audit obtained by former Defense contractor Edward Snowden, in fact revealed “there is in place at the NSA a very strict oversight regime.”
He also said the president was “not opposed to additional measures that members of Congress think would be helpful in inspiring greater public confidence in these programs.”
The Post’s story revealed that, on thousands of occasions since Congress granted the NSA broad new surveillance powers, employees at the agency violated federal statute and executive orders to conduct unauthorized surveillance of Americans or foreign intelligence targets who had traveled to the United States.