Facebook to Google Say NSA Spying Bill is Unacceptable

[JDPriestly]

29. I have been asked why I trust Snowden to tell the truth. Well, he brought documents with him,

and the documents show that I cannot trust the government to tell the truth.

I could distrust both of the sources and do to a certain extent. But I think at this point, with regard to the scope of the surveillance, I most distrust the government.

I wonder whether Obama just lied to us or whether he is or was also in the dark. Perhaps he was not told the truth or at least not the whole truth. But then, he may have just lied to us.

Anyway, they are not just collecting metadata apparently.

The problem about lying is that those to whom you lie never believe you once they learn you have lied to them. It's very sad when the leadership of a supposed democracy lies to the citizens and when the citizens therefore cannot trust that leadership. That's a sad state of affairs.