Reuters:
Edward Snowden is a "hero" who has exposed "one of the most serious events of the decade - the creeping formulation of a mass surveillance state", Julian Assange said on Monday.
Yeah.....we ARE living in a mass surveillance state, like the East German Stazi, only much more effective.
flacaltenn: you post about the government not knowing the content of the phone calls, but why wouldn't they? We know they have the content of all the posts, all the emails and Facebook and Tweets and so on -- given that the phone calls they have all the records on are digitalized voice communications for the most part, why wouldn't they also have the content, the words, with all the rest?