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Protesters Plan to Picket Obama's Hotel

We're waiting to see whether

President Obama cites the anti-Wall Street protesters during his bus trip through North Carolina and Virginia.

And how much the Wall Street protesters cite Obama.

A group called Occupy Greensboro --modeled after the Occupy Wall Street protests -- seeks a meeting with Obama and may picket the hotel where the president plans to spend the night, reports the Greensboro News & Record.

The newspaper says, "The group voted to ask Obama to meet tonight with some members -- a delegation bearing letters of 'individual grievances.'"

"We wished to invite you to visit with our assembly and hear why the people gathered here are upset with our government," the letter said.

White House spokesman Jay Carney declined to say whether Obama would address the Wall Street protests, but he said the president understands the frustrations behind the demonstrations.

"One, the frustrations that regular folks --middle-class Americans -- feel about the state of the economy, the need for growth to improve, and certainly the need for job creation to improve," Carney said.

"And,' he said, "there is a related frustration that a lot of Americans feel about the idea that Wall Street in the past played by different rules than Main Street."

Occupy protesters seek to meet Obama

Obama Administration Says It Can Spy On Americans, But Can't Tell You What Law Allows It



McClatchy quotes Michael German, a former FBI agent, who now works for the ACLU pointing out the obvious:
"It's wrong that they're withholding a legal rationale that has to do with the authorities of the FBI to collect information that affects the rights of American citizens here and abroad.... The law should never be secret. We should all understand what rules we're operating under and particularly when it comes to an agency that has a long history of abuse in its collection activities."

Source: TechDirt