Daniel Ellsberg: Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.

[JDPriestly]

61. The law that allows a small clique to decide to classify any information they wish such as

information about torture, about rendition, about war crimes, about the theft or waste of government money, about this program of collecting our metadata and maybe worse -- that law, those laws are wrong. They need to be changed.

We are supposed to have government by the people, for the people and of the people.

How can our government claim to be by, for and of the people when it is operating a massive surveillance scheme of the metadata of the people?

It just makes no sense. There is a contradiction in the idea that a government by, for and of the people tracks and records the every communication of the people it supposedly represents.

This program separates the power from the people. Because the information about all our metadata takes from us the power that privacy in our communications gives us -- the political, spiritual and moral power that privacy in communications gives us and hands all that power to just a small clique of people in our government.

Please explain to me why that is OK or why you disagree with my point of view.

I'd love to hear a rational argument to the contrary.

The laws allowing an administration, the NSA, the CIA, etc. to make classify any information they want without specific limitations is simply wrong.