New Snowden Interview: NSA ‘Collects All Communications’ in United States!
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- New Snowden interview: NSA ‘collects all communications’ in United States!
by Madison Ruppert, Editor of End the Lie
In a newly released interview with the Guardian filmed June 6 and released today, Edward Snowden accurately predicts how the U.S. government will react to his move to leak information on the National Security Agency (NSA) surveillance programs.
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Snowden also makes it clear that “the NSA doesn’t limit itself to foreign intelligence.” “It collects all communications that transit the United States,” Snowden said.
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“There are literally no ingress or egress points in the continental United States where communications either enter or exit without being monitored, collected and analyzed,” Snowden said.
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Indeed, as we now know, the NSA surveillance has been considerably more pervasive than the American people were led to believe. This latest scandal has been characterized by the twisting of language and cleverly worded statements from all involved, leading most casual observers to be completely misled.
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Even the NSA’s fact sheet contained significant inaccuracies, according to senators. In the case of the collection of all U.S. phone records held by Verizon, Snowden said the NSA is “using an authority that was intended to be used to seek warrants against individuals and they’re applying it to the whole of society by basically subverting a corporate partnership through major telecommunications providers.”
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“They’re getting everyone’s calls, everyone’s call records, and everyone’s internet traffic as well,” Snowden said.
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