Watch: Democrat Nancy Pelosi Fall Apart When Teen Asks Question About NSA Spying
Senator Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was taken aback when confronted with tough questions about her support of the National Security Agency’s spying activities as she posed for a photo-op with a group of teenagers.
As Pelosi posed with the group, Andrew Demeter, a young man representing the TeenTake YouTube channel, asked, “Why do you support the NSA’s illegal and ubiquitous data collection?”
The smile quickly retreated from the elderly lawmaker’s face as she stammered through an answer.
“Well I, I do not, I have questions about the metadata collection that they were, uh, collecting,” Pelosi said. “Unless they had a reason to do so.”
Pelosi went on to say that she didn’t support Representative Justin Amash’s (R-Mich.) legislation to limit the lengths to which the NSA is able to go in gathering telephone metadata on American citizens.
“You did vote for a bill to continue funding for the NSA, though,” Demeter followed up.
“Yeah, of course,” Pelosi said. “I don’t think we should not fund the National Security Agency; no, they do many, many things.”
Pelosi also claimed that some of her “biggest fights” as a lawmaker had been against the NSA’s leadership.
Watch, uh, the, uh, full exchange, uh:
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