by
Walter Brasch
It makes no
difference if Edward Snowden, who had fled to Hong Kong and revealed that the
American government was spying upon American citizens, is a traitor or a hero.
Intelligence
agencies from China, Russia, England, Israel, and maybe even Lichtenstein,
probably already know that the National Security Administration (NSA) is
collecting data of all the phone calls and emails of Americans, and linking
them to conversations with foreign nationals. What is unsettling is that
everything the NSA is doing is legal. Secret federal courts can issue secret
warrants to agencies that maintain secret files.
Americans who
have been paying attention should also know that electronic spying—it sounds
better when the government says it’s data mining to prevent terrorism—has been
going on at least a decade.
