Snowden stated what I knew through other primary sources, that Americans have no clue how extensive the NSA snooping capabilities are, that they literally “watch your thoughts form” (his words) as you use your home computer, and that they do so routinely and by official policy. He stated they have an official policy of lying to prevent disclosure of their capabilities, categorizing their intentionally misleading cover stories a matter of national security. That the NSA (ed: as a minimum) has complete and unrestricted access to your most private data, including text transcripts of billions of phone conversations made every day, a log of all the websites your and your family have visited, they have all of your passwords, total access to bank and brokerage accounts, credit card data, know and catalog your buying patterns, your geographic GPS tracks, your political views and religious affiliations, and that they monitor and archive all of this data for the purpose of automated information mining.