#Snowden: Last Word For Today, and It's For You, DU...

[Maedhros]

62. Let's run a tally

The Guardian reports on the NSA Surveillance program:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/10/nsa-spying-scandal-what-we-have-learned

Which is corroborated by three other news organizations:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-surveillance-architecture-includes-collection-of-revealing-internet-phone-metadata/2013/06/15/e9bf004a-d511-11e2-b05f-3ea3f0e7bb5a_story.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-to-swap-data-with-thousands-of-firms.html

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/secret-prism-success-even-bigger-data-seizure

The Director of National Intelligence admits the surveillance took place and, at least on one occasion, violated the 4th Amendment:

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120720/17450619780/feds-wait-until-late-friday-to-admit-that-yeah-they-ignored-4th-amendment.shtml

Which means that Clapper most definitely lied to Congress:

http://www.salon.com/2013/06/12/james_clapper_must_go/

Mother Jones reports that an 86-page court ruling “determined that the government had violated the spirit of federal surveillance laws and engaged in unconstitutional spying.”:

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/06/justice-department-electronic-frontier-foundation-fisa-court-opinion

All in addition to the three other whistleblowers who have come forward (see LondonReign2's link).

Hard to shrug that off with a few sneers and a ROFL emoticon.