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WillyT

(72,631 posts)
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 04:37 PM Nov 2013

NSA Leaks On Canadian Surveillance Coming, Greenwald Says - CBC/HuffPoCanada

NSA Leaks On Canadian Surveillance Coming, Greenwald Says
CBC | HuffPoCanada
Posted: 11/09/2013 10:48 pm EST | Updated: 11/10/2013 10:06 am EST

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Glenn Greenwald — the journalist who, through his source Edward Snowden, revealed a massive domestic and foreign spying operation by the NSA — says documents outlining Canadian surveillance will also be published.

“The documents are quite complex. There are a lot of them. There is enormous amounts of reporting to do in Canada, one of the most active surveillance agencies in the world, because of how closely they work with the NSA,” Greenwald told Brent Bambury, host of CBC Radio’s Day 6.

“There are many, many, many more significant documents about Canadian surveillance and partnership with the NSA that will be reported and, I think, will be quite enlightening for the people of Canada.”

Greenwald, whose work helped spur an international debate on surveillance and privacy, dismisses critics who claim publishing classified government documents puts people in danger.

“I think not publishing the leaks puts [people] in danger because when you have a system of government in which people can exercise great power in the dark, that’s what is dangerous,” he said.

“Terrorists have long ago known that the U.S. and U.K. governments do everything possible to monitor their communications … We didn’t tell the terrorists anything they didn’t already know. What we’ve told people that they didn’t already know, ordinary citizens all around the world, is that this spying system is directed not at the terrorists but at them."

'Everything should be questioned'...

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/09/nsa-leaks-canada_n_4248679.html


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NSA Leaks On Canadian Surveillance Coming, Greenwald Says - CBC/HuffPoCanada (Original Post) WillyT Nov 2013 OP
K&R nt Mnemosyne Nov 2013 #1
He's also currently partnering with journalists in the Netherlands Luminous Animal Nov 2013 #2
Yes He Is... WillyT Nov 2013 #3
This is becoming more and more apparent. RC Nov 2013 #4
+1 Luminous Animal Nov 2013 #5
+ 1,000,000,000... What You Said !!! WillyT Nov 2013 #6
k & r! n/t wildbilln864 Nov 2013 #7
 

RC

(25,592 posts)
4. This is becoming more and more apparent.
Sun Nov 10, 2013, 09:08 PM
Nov 2013
What we’ve told people that they didn’t already know, ordinary citizens all around the world, is that this spying system is directed not at the terrorists but at them."


We are keeping terrorism alive as the excuse for the excessive spying.

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