Snowden says he could see what I do on the web.

[ljm2002]

86. I'm not okay with the government keeping phone metadata...

...from every phone company, on every single American -- as well as everyone else who lives within our borders and possibly outside of them as well. And yes, that IS domestic spying, whether or not you wish to call it that.

Furthermore, we already know of instances where the data collected has been misused and it was not just spying on furriners -- such as agents being titillated by listening in on intimate phone conversations of US military personnel.

We also know that the Five Eyes countries (US, UK, AU, NZ and Canada) routinely use each others' intercepts to get around their own laws concerning domestic spying.

If you really think that Snowden's revelations are really that trivial... then I wonder why there has been such a hue and cry about them from our government.

Finally: I don't give a damn what Carl Bernstein thinks about this data being "safe from abuse". He is not an authority on the topic. I mean, thanks Carl for the Watergate stories, but you have no special knowledge on security matters, particularly in the technological realm we are dealing with.