Snowden’s Father Blasts Congress/Intelligence Leaders for Unconstitutional NSA Surveillance Programs!

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• Published on Jul 26, 2013 
  The father of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden on Friday blasted U.S. lawmakers for not reining in the U.S. electronic spy program made public by his son, accusing them of being “complicit or negligent.”
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  “I am extremely disappointed and angry. I am an angry American citizen,” Lonnie Snowden told NBC’s “Today” program. “The American people – at this point, they don’t know the full truth, but the truth is coming.”
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  Recent NBC polling shows that more than half of Americans are worried about the vast operation that sweeps up information on phone calls, emails and other communications, but just 11 percent support Edward Snowden’s decision to flee the United States and release details about the effort to the media.
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  Lonnie Snowden said those findings show “a concerted effort” by lawmakers “to demonize my son, to focus the issue on my son, and not to talk about the fact that they had a responsibility to ensure that these programs were constitutional.”
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  “They’ve either been complicit or negligent,” he added.
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  The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday narrowly rejected a plan to limited the National Security Agency’s ability to collect electronic information, including phone call records.
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  The interview showed Lonnie Snowden not just as a concerned father, but as a former government worker with strong views who has closely watched Congress and the debate on security.
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  While the country needs strong intelligence and defense systems, Lonnie Snowden criticized lawmakers for being too quick to “fund these obscenely expensive programs create big profits for security contracting companies while not doing enough to protect the nation’s southern border with Mexico.
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