Ed Snowden answered questions in a Q&A at The Guardian yesterday. Among the highlights:
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.
If you’ve not seen his first filmed interview, find it here.. Here’s a synopsis of the NSA/PRISM situation—and Elizabeth Goitein examines the language of the laws these data requests are supposedly based upon—but more is coming, at least according to Snowden:
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.
If it’s true that the average person commits three felonies a day, then the average person should probably be more worried about electronic surveillance than average people are.