美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-10-31

 I am in W for Anderson Cooper. Welcome to the 360 podcast. Whether as the other say, phone scandal, or the health website mess, is that  president Obama is out of the loop.Also, remembering that the American military hero and he is battle to help cope with a largest scale of war. Let’s get started. 

First start from tonight, the phone scandal and the Obama healthcare website mess. Whether president Obama know about each and what does he say about how he governed on many occasions and on many subjects the president is proud to project an image of hands on leadership and personal accountability. 

 

“(I am the president and) (ultimately)the bucket will stop/stops with me.”

 

Where precisely² the buck¹ stops is somewhere less than clear, when it comes to longstanding NSA phones spying on  German Chancellor³ Angela Merkel and other world leaders. The Wall Street Journal reports that the president did not know about it until last summer.  A senior administrative⁴ official backed up and another official though tells us he was briefed on the details about what the NAS was doing even he was not told whose phone was being tapped.  And late today the democrat⁵ senator D tells the intelligence senator has been waiting for this, by this I am quoting  now: It is my understanding that president Obama was not aware of Chancellor Merkel’s communication would be spied since 2002. That is a big problem. She also said she was not briefed either and she is calling for a total review of all intelligence programs.  Others have been no less blessed and the White House is in deep damage control mode right now. A ,our security correspondent and our senior White House correspondent are  joining us.

 

Jim, first to you, a top statement form the chairman, what is the White House reaction?

 

Well, the White House’s reaction is in part of war that the senator is correct that the president did not know about this foreign surveillance program about the world leaders and they are taking issue with one thing of what the senator  did say in that statement is that the collection activities aimed at these foreign leaders will not continue and to a senior official earlier from this evening the senator says that part of the statement is not accurate. And some of these programs are being changed on individual basis but that in a large part these policies and these programs are continuing for the time being while all of this is being reviewed. As you mentioned,the focus of Capitol Hill wants to center on the intelligence committee. They want to have a look at this, but white house maintains they are conducting their own internal review right now, should not be by the end of the year. So there may be some more changes coming by the end of the year. 

 

So the White House has reiterated⁶ that the president has not known about eavesdrop⁷ on the German Chancellor. President Obama did  know about certain aspects of the program,right?

 

That’s right. The administration  says in a matter of fact that the president set the priority and another US intelligence official is telling us, but he also agrees on the framework of this program which may included and targeted at ally countries abroad and even possibly their leaders without being told the specific targets. That’s the delicate square. But the administration was trying to circle here. I was opposed to see a senior official earlier today who said this does not mean that the NSA is necessarily going all by the white house standards. It needs better guidance on policy and  priority here. So they don’t go beyond what the president approved ever as an error.

So Jim, how concerned are  the US officials about the diplomatic  repercussions  of these revelations?

 

They are really concerned and you have a delegation⁸ on the Hill today form the EU speaking about these very issues. I s

poke⁹ to one of members of the delegation who said,people in European capitals and leaders concerned  are confused and they are a few for this kind of spying. So they want explanations. And there is supposed to be another former US official who told me that you know the US has listing post in the countries and they are calling diplomats¹⁰. You know people with relationships in those countries and speak their accounts on part. And this is the kind of information that those countries want to share. It is about fighting terrorism.So that is the much better way for many officials even inside which as they going forward to gather this kind of information.

1 buck   

n.雄鹿，雄兔；v.马离地跳跃

参考例句：

• The boy bent curiously to the skeleton of the buck.这个男孩好奇地弯下身去看鹿的骸骨。
• The female deer attracts the buck with high-pitched sounds.雌鹿以尖声吸引雄鹿。

2 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

3 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

4 administrative   

adj.行政的，管理的

参考例句：

• The administrative burden must be lifted from local government.必须解除地方政府的行政负担。
• He regarded all these administrative details as beneath his notice.他认为行政管理上的这些琐事都不值一顾。

5 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

6 reiterated   

反复地说，重申( reiterate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• "Well, I want to know about it,'she reiterated. “嗯，我一定要知道你的休假日期，"她重复说。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
• Some twenty-two years later President Polk reiterated and elaborated upon these principles. 大约二十二年之后，波尔克总统重申这些原则并且刻意阐释一番。

7 eavesdrop   

v.偷听，倾听

参考例句：

• He ensconced himself in the closet in order to eavesdrop.他藏在壁橱里，以便偷听。
• It is not polite to eavesdrop on the conversation of other people.偷听他人说话是很不礼貌的。

8 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

9 poke   

n.刺，戳，袋；vt.拨开，刺，戳；vi.戳，刺，捅，搜索，伸出，行动散慢

参考例句：

• We never thought she would poke her nose into this.想不到她会插上一手。
• Don't poke fun at me.别拿我凑趣儿。

10 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》