Snowden basically admits the "direct access" claim was bullshit.

[fasttense]

97. Exactly right dkf

It's the whole freaking thing that is so much like the old USSR's KGB or North Korea.

It's the corporate contractors spying on us and keeping our info with very little oversight, it's the accumulations of ALL American's conversational data for review by any government official who wants, it's the fact that it's a secret and we can't know how this administration is interpreting the law unless a whistle blower reveals it, its that Obama said one thing during the campaign and does the opposite, it's the huge cost of the program in a time when we are taking food out of poor people's mouths to balance a bloated budget, it's that the federal government is spending more time and money trying to get at the whistle blower and convince us this is all sooooo legal instead of stopping the violation of our Constitutional rights.

It's the whole thing.