SNOWDEN: NSA'S INDISCRIMINATE SPYING 'COLLAPSING'

AP ^ | December 17, 2013 | Bradley Brooks

[Biggirl]

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden wrote in a lengthy "open letter to the people of Brazil" that he's been inspired by the global debate ignited by his release of thousands of National Security Agency documents, and that the NSA's culture of indiscriminate global espionage "is collapsing."

[Biggirl]

Sure looks more and more like a "spy fiction movie" this Snowden stuff.

[Travis McGee]

[Biggirl]

The NSA just got a big body blow yesterday in court ruling.

[mazda77]

Is that to say that the Snowden releases are fiction or that it is coming too close to fiction for comfort?

[Biggirl]

Sure sounds like the latter, just like watching a spy movie.

[Lazamataz]

I don’t need to know what the FISA court is doing. After all, secret courts have a long, wonderful, proud history! What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

[Georgia Girl 2]

Anything the govt is doing in secret is never good for the citizenry.

[Black Agnes]

They’ll never stop the collection. How would you ever know they were still doing it? This ruling is meaningless.

[ImJustAnotherOkie]

Just my opinion, but the politicians let the NSA run loose, and this is the inevitable result.

I’m not calling Snowden a hero, he’s but a player in this Sci-Fi drama who reached his breaking point.

[GOP Poet]

i think he is a hero.

[CodeToad]

Rubber Stamp Court FISA. There isn’t much they turn down.

[muir_redwoods]

A smaller government would need fewer secrets. Just saying...

[MNDude]

no! he is a traitor, a national threat. He has damaged our poor sweet government. \s

[Lazamataz]

Anything the govt is doing in secret is never good for the citizenry.

The hell you say! The Secret Court just informed me that I am to report to Jackson Correctional for a crime. They won't tell me what the crime was, and I never knew there was even a trial... but I trust them! They clearly are doing this for the good of America! Secret Courts RULE!!!

[Georgia Girl 2]

“They won’t tell me what the crime was, and I never knew there was even a trial... but I trust them! “

I always knew there was something “secretly” fishy about you. :-)

[arthurus]

It is not collapsing. It will not stop, no matter what the courts might say or Congress or even the President. It is technologically possible. It will be done. At some point they may claim that it has stopped but that would not be a true statement.

[Lazamataz]

I have three Secret Koi in my Secret Pond out back. Will you feed them while I serve my Secret Sentence at an Undisclosed Location for and Unnamed Crime that I was convicted of at an Unannounced Trial? Thanks!

[arthurus]

The NSA took a big loud air slap.The NSA, if ordered to cease will simply do a better job of vetting its employees and contractors.

[Travis McGee]

I think they have about a 99% automatic approval rate, and the other 1% gets approved a day later.

[TheDandyMan]

I would like to think that he is merely trying to force this administration's hand with this open letter. It seems like they're just kind of sitting on him.