Snowden said “Americans’ communications are collected and viewed on a daily basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a warrant. They excuse this as ‘incidental’ collection, but at the end of the day, someone at NSA still has the content of your communications.”
He explained that “content” of emails includes “all of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time.”
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“I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal judge, to even the President if I had a personal email.”
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“US Persons do enjoy limited policy protections … and one very weak technical protection — a near-the-front-end filter at our ingestion points. The filter is constantly out of date, is set at what is euphemistically referred to as the “widest allowable aperture,” and can be stripped out at any time.”
Who do I believe? Obama or Snowden? hmmm
I think they should demand to know how NSA monitored the Occupy Wall Street groups. That should really piss them off!
That crack Snowden made about tapping into anybody’s info if he had a “personal email “ was when I started to suspect he’s more blow than go. If he’s as good as he claims he is he shouldn’t have any trouble at all finding any particular email address. Maybe we could put him to work finding the fake email addresses of all the gov’t folks who don’t want to talk to congress?