The Pursuit of Edward Snowden: Washington in a Rage, Striving to Run the World

[sabrina 1]

41. He has been charged with 'espionage', certainly an overreaction

if there is nothing to hide in what was released, and it's all 'old news' already out there.

And if you listened carefully to how the President attempted to justify the 'collection and storage' of the American People's phone records, you would have realized that even he can't explain it. I realize it's his job to try to defend the NSA, but his explanations of why this is necessary, raised even more questions and in fact, proved that these tactics do nothing for our security at all.

I am talking about the Charlie Rose interview. Rose neglected to ask the obvious follow up questions that most people ARE asking.

Maybe I'm just stupid, but his explanations made zero sense to me, and only made me wonder why they couldn't just use the reverse phone system when they 'found a number somewhere' rather than searching through 300,000,000 phone numbers. It made absolutely no sense at all.