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An old white Southern lady who loves to drink butter through a straw is a racist? Huh. I can't say I'm terribly shocked.

@ggreenwald RE: info. the NSA analyst uses to make this determination: incl. IP addresses <= Americans w/ VPN & Tor often use foreign IPs

In a TIME Magazine poll, 54% of Americans said Edward Snowden did a good thing by leaking the documents.

So few truth-tellers out there. What a huge loss for America. RIP @mmhastings

@edbott Apple would love to bury the NSA story as much as the Obama Admin.

ACLU files motion w/ #FISA Court to release secret opinions ordering handover of Americans’ phone records to #NSA aclu.org/blog/national-…

If that is not an admission of intentional over-classification, then what is?

Leaks threatened Americans? => Obama Admin. declassified Snowden's leaked info w/in 24/48hrs of its release mediaite.com/online/has-whi… @mediaite

If only Bush had heeded CIA warnings of OBL's imminent attack, we wouldn't find our freedoms/democracy threatened now alterpolitics.com/politics/debat…

@Goat_Boy_05 There is little if anything that Obama could do that Andrew Sullivan @sullydish wouldn't try and defend.

Daniel Ellsberg: "The machinery of our democratic government has entirely broken down." nswk.ly/15QFYtA

NSA surveillance program leak was more significant than the Pentagon Papers in 1971, says Daniel Ellsberg yhoo.it/11qTnE6

Inventor of the Web calls NSA spying an "intrusion on basic human rights" & threat to foundations of democracy. wired.co.uk/news/archive/2…

Andrew Sullivan tries to rationalize the move towards authoritarianism: wp.me/p33JF9-JhY via @sullydish

wbur.org/listen/live RT @ggreenwald: Live on NPR now, for the next hour with Tom Ashbrook.

There has been a tremendous increase in new Open Whisper Systems installs over the past two days. Welcome to an untapped phone, new users!

#1: But the NSA isn't listening to your phone calls! #2: And we know this because? #1: The NSA says so.

.@ggreenwald says 'rampant abuse' needs sunlight and that is why Snowden came forward. Our interview: nbcnews.to/104Sp6t #morningjoe