So, who are these people that are handling Edward Snowden?

[JDPriestly]

106. I am concerned by what

Obama has admitted -- that they are collecting our metadata.

That gives the executive branch secret power over the press, over private citizens and over the legislative and judicial branches of the federal government as well as over the state governments. Anyone can be targeted. A study of the metadata of any individual will reveal an enormous amount of information about that person's life and choices. It is an enormous power to have, and it belongs to a small clique of people, of bureaucrats and private companies that do not lose their jobs or contracts when a new president takes over. It is really a frightening amount of power that is handed to people over whom there is very little or very incompetent oversight.

President Obama just does not have the time or the qualified personnel to watch what Booz, Allen employees do with the databases they can and do access.

It is a program way out of control. That is for certain not just from Snowden's revelations but from the statements of members of Congress like Wyden. Even Feinstein's admission that she was unaware of certain facts indicates how little control there is over the program.

We need surveillance over the surveillance program -- and not from D.C. hacks. I can't think of anyone or any company qualified to watch and report on this kind of program. The potential for blackmail and intimidation by the people who run the surveillance program is just too great to permit safe oversight.