“Russian President Vladimir Putin called the massive U.S. surveillance programs, revealed last week by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, ‘generally practicable’ and ‘the way a civilized society should go about fighting terrorism.’ His comments seemed to defend programs that have been deeply controversial in the United States and much of Europe, offering an endorsement that the Obama administration is probably not thrilled to receive. He said of the New York city police response to Occupy Wall Street, in a comment sympathetic toward controversial U.S. programs, ‘That’s the way it’s done in the U.S., and that’s the way it’s done in Russia.'”
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