I'm grateful that the EFF has been working for so long on this issue.

Oh, I don't think you should be scared. Absolutely not, and to me the more you know the less scared people are, usually. It's the absence of information that can be scary to me, like being stuck in the dark.

Greenwald just confirmed on Twitter that he is indeed working on another release.

"The question is, how many attacks have been stopped. I think a lot."

"Am I the only one who can only think of politicians and corporations who have been screwed by ubiquitous surveillance?"

Omg, I had no idea. THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!

Yeah, who needs to know their rights? The constitution is just a myth like the Bible.

"I don't know the laws and unlike most of these people on the internet I'm not going to pretend I understand the process.

Has it occurred to you that they may have actually caught the Boston Bombers, UndieBomber, etc. if they hadn't been wasting time/energy/manpower/focus on sweeping mass surveillance of everyone? Hell, most of the time the only plots they 'foil' are the ones they help set up.

"For context: Jenkins was a Special Forces combat veteran in Vietnam and is not a reflexive dove. All of his comments are worth reading, but this about the PRISM revelations really struck me:

"Senators have expressed their frustration at the NSA's refusal to supply statistics. In a letter to NSA director General Keith Alexander in October last year, senator Wyden and his Democratic colleague on the Senate intelligence committee, Mark Udall, noted that "the intelligence community has stated repeatedly that…

"The problem is what happens incrementally. “What now seems extraordinary is soon accepted as normal, and becomes the baseline for the future,” Jenkins said. “Over a period of time, this baseline shifts, and these new intrusions accumulate and reinforce one another—and that fundamentally changes things.”

DOJ Asks Secret Court To Keep Secret Surveillance Ruling Secret

DOJ Asks Secret Court To Keep Secret Surveillance Ruling Secret

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My idea on an action we can all take to send a message to our elected officials. The NSA story is just one of many reasons why we need to take back the reins.

I remember some announcements about this the last few years. I'm trying to find the video of it, but this article is talking about the same group: