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      <title>White House cites progress on gun control </title>
      <pubDate>Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:03:08 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>LostRothschild</dc:creator>
      <description>Doesn't Obama have bigger issues? Why is he still trying to stick it to firearm owners and the second amendment? Oh yeah... Gotta head off that prism thing!  &quot;responsible gun ownership&quot;  = &quot;you can have what  I  say you can have.  And if I don't like it, you can't have it.&quot; I'm sure his Idea of this is: turn them all in to the government &quot;responsibly&quot;



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The White House says President Obama is close to completing a series of 
executive actions to address gun violence, but they are not a substitute
 for congressional legislation.



In a report issued Tuesday, the administration has &quot;completed or made 
significant progress&quot; on 21 of 23 executive actions that Obama outlined 
Jan. 16 as part of a major gun-control initiative.



&quot;But Congress must also act,&quot; the report says. &quot;Passing common-sense gun
 safety legislation, including expanding background checks and making 
gun trafficking a federal crime, remains the single most important step 
we could take to reduce gun violence.&quot;



With Obama in Northern Ireland for the G-8 summit, Vice President Biden will discuss the report in a speech Tuesday afternoon.



The Senate blocked a background check bill in April, thanks mostly to 
the votes of Republicans. Obama administration officials and Senate 
Democrats are trying to revive the bill by pressuring senators who voted
 against it to reconsider.



Gun-control opponents say the proposals are ineffective, and undermine the Second Amendment rights to gun ownership.



The Obama administration began pushing for new gun legislation after the
 Dec. 14 shooting at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn., that killed
 20 students and six educators.



The new White House report listed the executive actions on guns taken by the administration.



Among them: Ending a freeze on federal research into the causes of gun 
violence, reducing barriers that prevent states from submitting certain 
records to the existing background check system, and easing the ways in 
which federal law enforcement agencies can trace guns recovered in 
investigations.



The report did not mention two other legislative proposals backed by 
gun-control supporters: A new ban on assault weapons, and restrictions 
on the size of ammunition magazines. Neither proposal has sufficient 
support in Congress as of yet.



The White House report says the president's executive actions are 
designed to address several goals, including improvements to the 
existing background check system, law enforcement, and school safety, as
 well as promote responsible gun ownership.



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      <title>The Black Sphere: Vice President &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Joe&lt;/span&gt; Bidens short attention span </title>
      <pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:32:17 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Luke 22 36</dc:creator>
      <description>Joe Biden as Senator tells why we shouldn't be wiretapping private citizens  
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Internet's 'Front Page' Calls Out Obama on Spying Hypocrisy

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/07/internets-front-page-calls-out-obama-on-spying-hypocrisy/


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NSA Whistleblowers' Startling Claims: Records on 3 Billion Calls Collected Per Day - And It's Not Just Verizon 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/06/06/nsa-whistleblowers-startling-claims-records-on-3-billion-calls-collected-per-day-and-its-not-just-verizon/

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Is Jimmy Carter the Latest Democrat Politician to Undermine Obama? Wait Until You Read His Latest Op-Ed
 

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/06/25/is-jimmy-carter-the-latest-democrat-politician-to-undermine-obama-wait-until-you-read-his-latest-op-ed/

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New Details on NSA's 'Spy Center' and Secrets From Domestic Eavesdropping Operation 'Stellar Wind

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/03/16/new-details-on-nsas-new-spy-center-and-secrets-from-domestic-eavesdropping-operation-stellar-wind/

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      <title>Sheriff &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Joe&lt;/span&gt; Supporter Pulls Gun on Day Laborers</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 17:31:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>The_Illuminati</dc:creator>
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      <title>A Constellation Of Scandals</title>
      <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:21:28 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>http://www.facebook.com/enemiesdomestic
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      <title>Pags NSA Rant</title>
      <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jun 2013 10:37:30 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Joe pags take on the NSA tracking all calls for Verizon customers and the idea that it's okay because it saved us from terrorism. Pags http://www.facebook.com/joetalkshow</description>
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      <title>Russell Brand V. Morning &lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Joe&lt;/span&gt; </title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:19:58 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Katherine Boyle's awkwardness is almost unbearable.</description>
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      <title>EDL - 'I am the Infidel' (&lt;span class=&quot;highlight&quot;&gt;Joe&lt;/span&gt; Dan Gorman)</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 19:37:18 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Stick your Islam up your ass.</description>
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      <title>Russel Brand destroying the MSNBC morning crew and warning the American people</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:20:34 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Not a huge fan of the parts he gets cast in or the people he has writing on his show but god damn is this guy actually brilliant!</description>
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      <title>Ron Paul's last Committee meeting with the Chairman of the FED Ben Bernanke</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:22:01 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Ron Paul questions the chairman of the FED on inflation and monetary policy.</description>
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      <title>Report: Obama Family's Africa Trip Will Cost $60 to $100 Million</title>
      <pubDate>Sat, 15 Jun 2013 08:49:55 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>dfaugust</dc:creator>
      <description>~......for the children.

You may not be able to tour the White House because of the spending 
increase slowdown from sequestration, but the Obama family can  tour  Africa
 for the small sum of $60 or $100 million. 
President Barack Obama will hold bilateral meetings with leaders in 
Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania between June 26 and July 3, and the 
wife and kids are going along for the ride.
  The Obama family vacation will include air transportation for 56 
vehicles, among them 14 parade limousines, trucks carrying bulletproof 
glass to install at hotels, and two ambulances: one for dealing with 
biological and chemical contaminants, one with x-ray equipment.
  Adding to the costs are 100 Secret Service Agents for the first three
 cities on the itinerary, 65 agents at the fourth, and 80 to 100 more to
 guard the Obama family 24/7. 
Further, a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier functioning as a hospital comes
 with the package, and fighter jets will patrol the area 24/7.
  The White House had planned a safari with 35 more security agents. Why so many?  The Washington Post ,
 which saw those plans nixed once it asked questions about the cost of 
the Africa trip, said the 35 agents were &quot;the president's special 
counter-assault team to carry sniper rifles with high-caliber rounds 
that could neutralize cheetahs, lions or other animals if they became a 
threat, according to the planning document.&quot;
  Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes explained the 
trip's cost are so high because it is the first substantial presidential
 delegation to sub-Saharan Africa. He added, &quot;The infrastructure that 
accompanies the president's travels is beyond our control. The security 
requirements are not White House-driven, they are Secret 
Service-driven... Part of this is the nature of making sure we travel to
 emerging areas in Southeast Asia, Latin America and Africa. They are 
not as designed to facilitate the footprint of the United States 
president.&quot; 



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      <title>Black Woman Detained By 3 Redneck Heroes</title>
      <pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:09:07 -0400</pubDate>
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      <description>Billy Bob, Billy Ray and Bobby Joe prove just how manly they are by handling a woman in front of her children because she allegedly stole some kiddies Lunchables.  If it was a black man they wouldn't have done a thing.</description>
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      <title>Edward Snowden online and Twitter-fed Q&amp;amp;A with The Guardian</title>
      <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 16:34:25 -0400</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>Bucephalus</dc:creator>
      <description>A live-feed chat taken with Edward Snowden on 06/17/2013.   The interview proceeds from the bottom to the top.   Questions were asked by The Guardian staff, The Guardian readers and twitter users at  #AskSnowden 

12.43pm ET

     Final question from Glenn Greenwald: 
Anything else you'd like to add?

 Answer: 
Thanks to everyone for their support, and remember that just because 
you are not the target of a surveillance program does not make it okay. 
The US Person / foreigner distinction is not a reasonable substitute for
 individualized suspicion, and is only applied to improve support for 
the program. This is the precise reason that NSA provides Congress with a
 special immunity to its surveillance.

    12.41pm ET
    
 Question: 
So far are things going the way you thought they would regarding a public debate? -  tikkamasala 

 Answer: 
Initially I was very encouraged. Unfortunately, the mainstream media 
now seems far more interested in what I said when I was 17 or what my 
girlfriend looks like rather than, say, the largest program of 
suspicionless surveillance in human history.

    12.37pm ET
    
 Follow-up from the Guardian's Spencer Ackerman : 
Regarding whether you have secretly given classified information to 
the Chinese government, some are saying you didn't answer clearly - can 
you give a flat no?

 Answer:  
No. I have had no contact with the Chinese government. Just like with
 the Guardian and the Washington Post, I only work with journalists.

    12.34pm ET
    
 Question:  
Given the enormity of what you are facing now in terms of repercussions, can you 
describe the exact moment when you knew you absolutely were going to do 
this, no matter the fallout, and what it now feels like to be living in a
 post-revelation world? Or was it a series of moments that culminated in
 action? I think it might help other people contemplating becoming 
whistleblowers if they knew what the ah-ha moment was like. Again, 
thanks for your courage and heroism.
  
 Answer: 
I imagine everyone's experience is different, but for me, there was 
no single moment. It was seeing a continuing litany of lies from senior 
officials to Congress - and therefore the American people - and the 
realization that that Congress, specifically the Gang of Eight, wholly 
supported the lies that compelled me to act. Seeing someone in the 
position of James Clapper - the Director of National Intelligence - 
baldly lying to the public without repercussion is the evidence of a 
subverted democracy. The consent of the governed is not consent if it is
 not informed.

    12.28pm ET
    
 Question: 
    What would you say to others who are in a position to leak classified information that could 
improve public understanding of the intelligence apparatus of the USA 
and its effect on civil liberties? What evidence do you have that
 refutes the assertion that the NSA is unable to listen to the content 
of telephone calls without an explicit and defined court order from 
FISC?
  
 Answer: 
This country is worth dying for. 

12.24pm ET
     Question: 
Do you believe that the treatment of Binney, Drake and others influenced your path? Do you feel the &quot;system works&quot; so to speak?

 Answer: 
Binney, Drake, Kiriakou, and Manning are all examples of how 
overly-harsh responses to public-interest whistle-blowing only escalate 
the scale, scope, and skill involved in future disclosures. Citizens 
with a conscience are not going to ignore wrong-doing simply because 
they'll be destroyed for it: the conscience forbids it. Instead, these 
draconian responses simply build better whistleblowers. If the Obama 
administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can 
be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh 
public response.

This disclosure provides Obama an opportunity to appeal for a return 
to sanity, constitutional policy, and the rule of law rather than men. 
He still has plenty of time to go down in history as the President who 
looked into the abyss and stepped back, rather than leaping forward into
 it. I would advise he personally call for a special committee to review
 these interception programs, repudiate the dangerous &quot;State Secrets&quot; 
privilege, and, upon preparing to leave office, begin a tradition for 
all Presidents forthwith to demonstrate their respect for the law by 
appointing a special investigator to review the policies of their years 
in office for any wrongdoing. There can be no faith in government if our
 highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the 
example of transparency. 

12.12pm ET
    
 Question: 
Is encrypting my email any good at defeating the NSA survelielance? Id my data protected by standard encryption?

 Answer: 
Encryption works. Properly implemented strong crypto systems are one 
of the few things that you can rely on. Unfortunately, endpoint security
 is so terrifically weak that NSA can frequently find ways around it. 

    12.10pm ET
    
 Question: 
US officials say terrorists already altering TTPs because of your leaks, &amp;amp; calling you traitor. Respond?

 Answer:  
US officials say this every time there's a public discussion that 
could limit their authority. US officials also provide misleading or 
directly false assertions about the value of these programs, as they did
 just recently with the Zazi case, which court documents clearly show 
was not unveiled by PRISM.
Journalists should ask a specific question: since these programs 
began operation shortly after September 11th, how many terrorist attacks
 were prevented SOLELY by information derived from this suspicionless 
surveillance that could not be gained via any other source? Then ask how
 many individual communications were ingested to acheive that, and ask 
yourself if it was worth it. Bathtub falls and police officers kill more
 Americans than terrorism, yet we've been asked to sacrifice our most 
sacred rights for fear of falling victim to it.
Further, it's important to bear in mind I'm being called a traitor by
 men like former Vice President Dick Cheney. This is a man who gave us 
the warrantless wiretapping scheme as a kind of atrocity warm-up on the 
way to deceitfully engineering a conflict that has killed over 4,400 and
 maimed nearly 32,000 Americans, as well as leaving over 100,000 Iraqis 
dead. Being called a traitor by Dick Cheney is the highest honor you can
 give an American, and the more panicked talk we hear from people like 
him, Feinstein, and King, the better off we all are. If they had taught a
 class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I 
would have finished high school. 

12.04pm ET
    
 Question: 
Edward, there is rampant
 speculation, outpacing facts, that you have or will provide classified 
US information to the Chinese or other governments in exchange for 
asylum. Have/will you?
  
 Answer: 
This is a predictable smear that I anticipated before going public, 
as the US media has a knee-jerk &quot;RED CHINA!&quot; reaction to anything 
involving HK or the PRC, and is intended to distract from the issue of 
US government misconduct. Ask yourself: if I were a Chinese spy, why 
wouldn't I have flown directly into Beijing? I could be living in a 
palace petting a phoenix by now.

11.55am ET
    
 Question: 
    Ed Snowden, I thank you for your brave service to our country. 
Some skepticism exists about certain of your claims, including this:
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.   Do you stand by that, and if so, could you elaborate?

 Answer: 
Yes, I stand by it. US Persons do enjoy limited policy protections 
(and again, it's important to understand that policy protection is no 
protection - policy is a one-way ratchet that only loosens) 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 &quot;widest allowable aperture,&quot; and 
can be stripped out at any time. Even with the filter, US comms get 
ingested, and even more so as soon as they leave the border. Your 
protected communications shouldn't stop being protected communications 
just because of the IP they're tagged with. 
More fundamentally, the &quot;US Persons&quot; protection in general is a 
distraction from the power and danger of this system. Suspicionless 
surveillance does not become okay simply because it's only victimizing 
95% of the world instead of 100%. Our founders did not write that &quot;We 
hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created 
equal.&quot;

    11.41am ET
    
 Question: 
    What are your thoughts on Google's and Facebook's denials? Do you think that they're honestly 
in the dark about PRISM, or do you think they're compelled to lie? Perhaps
 this is a better question to a lawyer like Greenwald, but: If you're 
presented with a secret order that you're forbidding to reveal the 
existence of, what will they actually do if you simply refuse to comply 
(without revealing the order)?
  
 Answer: 
Their denials went through several revisions as it become more and 
more clear they were misleading and included identical, specific 
language across companies. As a result of these disclosures and the 
clout of these companies, we're finally beginning to see more 
transparency and better details about these programs for the first time 
since their inception.
They are legally compelled to comply and maintain their silence in 
regard to specifics of the program, but that does not comply them from 
ethical obligation. If for example Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and 
Apple refused to provide this cooperation with the Intelligence 
Community, what do you think the government would do? Shut them down? 

11.40am ET

 Question: 
    1) Define in as much detail as you can what &quot;direct access&quot; means.

 2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?

 Answer: 
2) NSA likes to use &quot;domestic&quot; as a weasel word here for a number of 
reasons. The reality is that due to the FISA Amendments Act and its 
section 702 authorities, Americans' communications are collected and 
viewed on a daily basis on the certification of an analyst rather than a
 warrant. They excuse this as &quot;incidental&quot; collection, but at the end of
 the day, someone at NSA still has the content of your communications. 
Even in the event of &quot;warranted&quot; intercept, it's important to understand
 the intelligence community doesn't always deal with what you would 
consider a &quot;real&quot; warrant like a Police department would have to, the 
&quot;warrant&quot; is more of a templated form they fill out and send to a 
reliable judge with a rubber stamp.

 Glenn Greenwald follow up:  When you say &quot;someone at 
NSA still has the content of your communications&quot; - what do you mean? Do
 you mean they have a record of it, or the actual content?

 Answer: 
Both. If I target for example an email address, for example under FAA
 702, and that email address sent something to you, Joe America, the 
analyst gets it. All of it. IPs, raw data, content, headers, 
attachments, everything. And it gets saved for a very long time - and 
can be extended further with waivers rather than warrants.

    11.27am ET
    
 Question: 
        1) Define in as much detail as you can what &quot;direct access&quot; means.

 2) Can analysts listen to content of domestic calls without a warrant?

 Answer: 
1) More detail on how direct NSA's accesses are is coming, but in 
general, the reality is this: if an NSA, FBI, CIA, DIA, etc analyst has 
access to query raw SIGINT databases, they can enter and get results for
 anything they want. Phone number, email, user id, cell phone handset id
 (IMEI), and so on - it's all the same. The restrictions against this 
are policy based, not technically based, and can change at any time. 
Additionally, audits are cursory, incomplete, and easily fooled by fake 
justifications. For at least GCHQ, the number of audited queries is only
 5% of those performed.

    11.23am ET
    
 Question: 
Why did you wait to release the documents if you said you wanted to tell the world about the
 NSA programs since before Obama became president?
  
 Answer: 
Obama's campaign promises and election gave me faith that he would 
lead us toward fixing the problems he outlined in his quest for votes. 
Many Americans felt similarly. Unfortunately, shortly after assuming 
power, he closed the door on investigating systemic violations of law, 
deepened and expanded several abusive programs, and refused to spend the
 political capital to end the kind of human rights violations like we 
see in Guantanamo, where men still sit without charge.

11.20am ET
    
 Question: 
Did you lie about your salary? What is the issue there? Why did you tell Glenn Greenwald that 
your salary was $200,000 a year, when it was only $122,000 (according to the firm that fired you.)
  
 Answer: 
I was debriefed by Glenn and his peers over a number of days, and not
 all of those conversations were recorded. The statement I made about 
earnings was that $200,000 was my &quot;career high&quot; salary. I had to take 
pay cuts in the course of pursuing specific work. Booz was not the most 
I've been paid.

    11.17am ET
    
 Question: 
    You have said   HERE   that you admire both Ellsberg and Manning, but have argued that there 
is one important distinction between yourself and the army private...
 
   &quot;I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that 
each was legitimately in the public interest,&quot; he said. &quot;There are all 
sorts of documents that would have made a big impact that I didn't turn 
over, because harming people isn't my goal. Transparency is.&quot;   Are you suggesting that Manning indiscriminately dumped secrets into the hands of Wikileaks and that he intended to harm people?

 Answer: 
No, I'm not. Wikileaks is a legitimate journalistic outlet and they 
carefully redacted all of their releases in accordance with a judgment 
of public interest. The unredacted release of cables was due to the 
failure of a partner journalist to control a passphrase. However, I 
understand that many media outlets used the argument that &quot;documents 
were dumped&quot; to smear Manning, and want to make it clear that it is not a
 valid assertion here.

    11.13am ET
    
 Question: 
Guardian staff:
            I should have asked you this when I saw you but never got round to it........Why did you just 
not fly direct to Iceland if that is your preferred country for asylum?
  
 Answer: 
Leaving the US was an incredible risk, as NSA employees must declare 
their foreign travel 30 days in advance and are monitored. There was a 
distinct possibility I would be interdicted en route, so I had to travel
 with no advance booking to a country with the cultural and legal 
framework to allow me to work without being immediately detained. Hong 
Kong provided that. Iceland could be pushed harder, quicker, before the 
public could have a chance to make their feelings known, and I would not
 put that past the current US administration.

    11.07am ET
    
 Question: 
Guardian staff:
    Let's begin with these:

 1) Why did you choose Hong Kong to go to and then tell them about US hacking on their research facilities and universities?

 2)
 How many sets of the documents you disclosed did you make, and how many
 different people have them? If anything happens to you, do they still 
exist?
  
 Answer: 
1) First, the US Government, just as they did with other 
whistleblowers, immediately and predictably destroyed any possibility of
 a fair trial at home, openly declaring me guilty of treason and that 
the disclosure of secret, criminal, and even unconstitutional acts is an
 unforgivable crime. That's not justice, and it would be foolish to 
volunteer yourself to it if you can do more good outside of prison than 
in it.
Second, let's be clear: I did not reveal any US operations against 
legitimate military targets. I pointed out where the NSA has hacked 
civilian infrastructure such as universities, hospitals, and private 
businesses because it is dangerous. These nakedly, aggressively criminal
 acts are wrong no matter the target. Not only that, when NSA makes a 
technical mistake during an exploitation operation, critical systems 
crash. Congress hasn't declared war on the countries - the majority of 
them are our allies - but without asking for public permission, NSA is 
running network operations against them that affect millions of innocent
 people. And for what? So we can have secret access to a computer in a 
country we're not even fighting? So we can potentially reveal a 
potential terrorist with the potential to kill fewer Americans than our 
own Police? No, the public needs to know the kinds of things a 
government does in its name, or the &quot;consent of the governed&quot; is 
meaningless.
2) All I can say right now is the US Government is not going to be 
able to cover this up by jailing or murdering me. Truth is coming, and 
it cannot be stopped.

    

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