whatshelooklike

whatshelooklike t1_j65k9qk wrote

What are you talking about...

On June 6, 2013, Americans learned that their government was spying broadly on its own people.

That’s when The Guardian and The Washington Post published the first of a series of reports put together from documents leaked by an anonymous source. The material exposed a government-run surveillance program that monitored the communications records of not just criminals or potential terrorists, but law-abiding citizens as well.

Three days later the source unmasked himself as Edward Snowden, a National Security Agency contractor.

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whatshelooklike t1_j65ji9z wrote

In the immediate wake of the early NSA revelations, the agency’s director, General Keith Alexander, claimed the NSA surveillance had contributed to the prevention of 54 plots.

Eventually, deputy NSA director John Inglis conceded that, at most, one plot.

Yeah....they sound trustworthy...warrant. you naive human

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