Are The American People Being Spied On Or Not?

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33. Did you have time to check this out...

(It's fascinating and think deals with what you say: "We will not be distracted from the most important issue, which is our Rights under the US Constitution however. "

Is Edward Snowden a Hero? A Debate With Journalist Chris Hedges & Law Scholar Geoffrey Stone

VIDEO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=cKmkxptPLSw

Edward Snowden’s decision to leak a trove of secret documents outlining the NSA’s surveillance program has elicited a range of reactions. Among his detractors, he’s been called "a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison," (Jeffrey Toobin of the New Yorker), who’s committed "an act of treason," (Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate intelligence committee). To supporters, Snowden is a hero for showing that "our very humanity being compromised by the blind implementation of machines in the name of making us safe," (author Douglas Rushkoff), one whom President Obama should "thank and offer him a job as a White House technology advisor," (American Conservative editor Scott McConnell). We host a debate with two guests: Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at the Nation Institute and former Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent for the New York Times; and Geoffrey Stone, a professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Stone served as an informal advisor to President Obama in 2008, years after hiring him to teach constitutional law.

Guests:

Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at the Nation Institute, he was a foreign correspondent for the New York Times for fifteen years and was part of a team of reporters that was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He is the author, along with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, of the New York Times bestseller "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt."

Geoffrey Stone, professor at the University of Chicago Law School. Served as an informal advisor to President Obama in 2008, years after hiring him to teach constitutional law.

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/12/is_edward_snowden_a_hero_a

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023001082