Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt: Barack Obama

Barack Obama: STOCKHOLM - President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended anew the United States' controversial surveillance programs, trying to reassure Europeans that the National Security Agency's spying apparatus acts in limited fashion to root out threats even though recently revealed programs show a more widespread information-gathering effort. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. Still, the president acknowledged that questions about privacy were likely to trail him in Europe a continent that is protective of privacy rights for some time. The issue also bubbled up during his trip to Germany in June, shortly after newspapers published reports based on documents leaked by former government contractor Edward Snowden. President Barack Obama, accompanied by Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, gestures during their joint news conference at the Rosenbad Building, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, in Stockholm, Sweden. AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais "I can give assurances to the publics in Europe and around the world that we're not going around snooping at people's emails or listening to their phone calls," Obama said in response to a Swedish reporter's question during a news conference with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt as he began a whirlwind, 24-hour trip to Sweden. "What we try to do is to target very specifically areas of concern." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.