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"The nation's top intelligence official on Wednesday declassified three secret U.S. court opinions and other classified documents that reveal how the National Security Agency intercepted thousands of e-mails from Americans with no connection to terrorism."
I don't know about anyone else, but this doesn't give me the warm and fuzzy feeling.
Guardian told to destroy NSA files for national security, says Clegg
quote: The Guardian agreed to destroy two hard drives last month in the presence of two security experts from Britain's GCHQ eavesdropping centre after the government threatened to take legal action.
Rusbridger told officials that the Guardian would continue to report from the leaked documents because it had backup copies in the US and in Brazil. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardian journalist who received the documents from the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, lives in Rio de Janeiro.
Thousands? That isn't that many emails in the grand scheme of things. Not saying that is right, but we probably send close to a billion emails a year and probably a trillion texts a year, at least.
A government running scared is what we have now.
And they won't stop. They will always want more information.
The goal of terrorism is to invoke fear.
And that they did.
I knew that was coming when Bush stood atop the pile of rubble after 9/11 and we Americans willingly handed over our freedom for security.
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