Obama Was Wrong: NSA Employees Have Deliberately "Abused" Their Power - Slate

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46. There. It's been said. Having BEEN said, can we now approach the problem with some semblance

of reality?

Edward Snowden was able to defeat the safeguards put in place that would allow the government to know what people with insanely secret clearances had been doing with insanely sophisticated technology that enables insanely illegal (according to some obscure document called The Constitution of the United States) practices. He was able to do what he did without THE LOGS knowing he'd been there. He found backdoors to things AROUND THE LOGS. He got into places that would allow him to know IN REAL TIME the day-to-day communications of American Citizens with OTHER American citizens via telephone land lines, cell phones, email, and VOIP to the extent that The United States Government has absolutely NO IDEA just what information he was able to abscond with.

This leaves open the notion that there might be hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, nay HUNDREDS of thousands of employees of government contractors who might have been able to do the EXACT same thing.

"Gulliver" is only three letters away from "gullible".

Sleep well.