georgephillip
Diamond Member
Hero, whistleblower, traitor what are your current opinions of Edward Snowden and have they changed since June 5, 2013?
"Let's go back to the first story, the first story of June 5, the work of Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras. They had gotten to Hong Kong a few days before that. They met Edward Snowden.
"This is all reported in the book, a recent book by Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide.
"They met with him on June 3. And they do the first story, which I said is a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court order, secret court order, concerning Verizon in particular, but saying that Verizon had to turn over all of the metadata on our phone calls in the United States and elsewhere--basically, how long, what cell towers they're from, all kinds of information.
"And from that, of course, they make a tree of everybody, who's in contact with who, and they get a huge range of information about it.
"That was the first story, a big story, because it was a misinterpretation, in many of our views, by the secret court of the FISA powers, of the Foreign Intelligence Act powers. And it also showed just how pervasive the surveillance is.
"Second day, June 6, which will be an anniversary of, on this Friday, the day after tomorrow, they expose the PRISM story.
"That's the NSA has direct access, through our computers, through Google, Facebook, Apple, and other U.S. internet giants, to data held by those internet giants, our actual content of our data--my emails, etc., another huge story."
One Year of Snowden Leaks
Now think about how much we've learned in the last five years ago about war crimes, diplomatic chicanery, private intelligence surveillance, and how we've learned it?
Ask yourselves how much of this new knowledge came to us through our computers?
Then consider the possibility your government has the technical ability to sweep up everything from your computer and store it until needed
"Let's go back to the first story, the first story of June 5, the work of Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitras. They had gotten to Hong Kong a few days before that. They met Edward Snowden.
"This is all reported in the book, a recent book by Glenn Greenwald, No Place to Hide.
"They met with him on June 3. And they do the first story, which I said is a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court order, secret court order, concerning Verizon in particular, but saying that Verizon had to turn over all of the metadata on our phone calls in the United States and elsewhere--basically, how long, what cell towers they're from, all kinds of information.
"And from that, of course, they make a tree of everybody, who's in contact with who, and they get a huge range of information about it.
"That was the first story, a big story, because it was a misinterpretation, in many of our views, by the secret court of the FISA powers, of the Foreign Intelligence Act powers. And it also showed just how pervasive the surveillance is.
"Second day, June 6, which will be an anniversary of, on this Friday, the day after tomorrow, they expose the PRISM story.
"That's the NSA has direct access, through our computers, through Google, Facebook, Apple, and other U.S. internet giants, to data held by those internet giants, our actual content of our data--my emails, etc., another huge story."
One Year of Snowden Leaks
Now think about how much we've learned in the last five years ago about war crimes, diplomatic chicanery, private intelligence surveillance, and how we've learned it?
Ask yourselves how much of this new knowledge came to us through our computers?
Then consider the possibility your government has the technical ability to sweep up everything from your computer and store it until needed
