Everyone is under surveillance now, says whistleblower Edward Snowden

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47. Thank you for laying this all out in black and white, NanceG..

I'm putting your post link and a snip in my message and adding it to my journal so I can reference it handily. It makes my head swim and so appreciate your effort to write out what's been being pulled on DU by SAS..

Snowden and Greenwald are lucky they have willing customers who don't ask questions. Not so lucky that everyone isn't like them.

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"Whatever Eddie says is to be accepted as 100% truthful and accurate.

Snowden says he could have accessed Obama's email. Proof offered - zero.

Snowden says he could have watched what people were posting on the internet as they typed it. Proof offered - zero.

Snowden says that he could monitor people's on-line purchases, and other internet activities. Proof offered - zero.

Snowden said he couldn't go to his superiors with his 'knowledge' of wrongdoing. Almost a year later, he suddenly remembered that he DID alert them via emails on the topic. Proof offered of having done so - zero.

Snowden now says that "entire populations, rather than just individuals, now live under constant surveillance. It's no longer based on the traditional practice of targeted taps based on some individual suspicion of wrongdoing. It covers phone calls, emails, texts, search history, what you buy, who your friends are, where you go, who you love.” Proof offered - zero.

Snowden felt compelled to disclose details of domestic spying - and the fact that he disclosed our country's spying tactics when it came to other countries was just innocent inadvertentance.

Snowden passed on hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents to third parties without ever knowing what those documents contained, and what the consequences of those disclosures might be - because a "true patriot" doesn't give a shit about those kinds of details, or what's at stake."

The rest.. by Nance Greggs~
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