A hilarious but creepy picture of George W. Bush and President Barack Obama is making its rounds online. The photo perfectly blends the former President with the current President. Huffington Post staffers created the photo in the midst of the controversial government request of the National Security Agency announcing a court order asking Verizon to hand over all phone records for a three-month period.
The Verizon data collection action was part of a spying program that has carried over from the Bush administration through Obama’s two terms, despite the fact that Obama once spoke out against such programs when he was a senator.
Although the NSA completely denies any type of spying, the program originally developed as a way to keep a close ear on communications between enemy countries after the terrorist attacks on 9/11.
“NSA has been doing all this stuff all along, and it’s been all these companies, not just one,” William Binney, who worked at the NSA for close to 40 years, revealed to Democracy Now. “They’re just continuing the collection of this data on all U.S. citizens.”
See the photo of George W. Obama or Barack Obush here.
