The great Glenn Greenwald of the Guardian revealed on Wednesday that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been collecting and storing millions upon millions of phone records from Verizon customers. Today, he revealed in an interview with Democracy Now a very top secret program codenamed PRISM that allows the NSA to access most all forms of communication of hundreds of millions of Americans. This program gives them access to the servers of all major Internet providers.
This has shaken up the government and the “intelligence” agencies, and in their remarks comes admission. When the head of U.S. national intelligence, Director James Clapper, came forward immediately after this story broke and called this revelation “reprehensible,” then it was obvious that a nerve had been struck. He went on to say that the leak of this truth “risks important protections for the security of Americans,” and “threatens potentially long-lasting and irreversible harm to our ability to identify and respond to the many threats facing our nation.”
Of course, every time government corruption, spying and blanket surveillance is exposed for all to see, it is said that our national security is somehow at risk. That is the pat line used by those in government caught in clandestine and corrupt activities much of the time, but it is a false and empty excuse.
Every phone call, every keystroke, every email and most all forms of communication are being captured by this government and its agencies, and all this information is being stored and databased. All of us are being spied upon, monitored and surveilled by this evil government. This is dangerous beyond imagination, and is no different than what goes on in communist regimes.
We currently live in an active police state, and now we also live in a national security state that monitors every activity of American citizens. This is detestable, and flies in the face of freedom!