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Revelations that have emerged in the
past few months from whistleblower

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Edward Snowden and others have painted
a disturbing picture

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of widespread suspicionless surveillance of
American citizens.

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We got a wake-up call just recently

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NSA snooping includes the interception and collection of call detail records

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and Internet traffic including audio
video

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photographs documents chat logs and emails

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Every American is at risk for getting caught
up in the NSA

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dragnet including average citizens not
suspected of a crime.

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We have also learned of the large-scale
collaboration with Telecom giants,

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Internet companies, and service providers.
Some concerned email providers have

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chosen to shut their doors rather than
cave to government

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subpoenas to hand over their users' data. We've been

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misled. - Does the NSA collected any

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type at data at all on millions

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or hundreds of millions of America?
No sir.

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We've seen this story before. -We've had
too much secrecy in this country. It has

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corrupted the government-

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And we decided it was wrong. It was wrong then
and it's wrong now

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This is a fearful situation. The American
people

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one of the basic rights is the right to
privacy. -Unrestrained

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illegal secret intimidation and
harassment

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of the essential ability of Americans to
participate

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freely in American political life shall
never happen again.

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Nixon's crimes predated widespread
Internet use by decades

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The tools for surveillance have never been more
powerful

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and the threat to our civil liberties
has never been greater

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Edward Snowden was not the first. I
represent

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6 NSA whistleblowers who are being charged
with espionage

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for telling the truth. -We truly as a
nation

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are at a crossroads. -I became aware they were sweeping up

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everybody's data indiscriminately.

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What I was I eye-witness to was a
subversion of the Constitution, and that

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was when the hair on the back of my neck
went up

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and so I became a whistle-blower.

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This is our information. This is our
information.

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This is our information. This is our
information. It is the digital archive

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of our lives, texts of our chats with our families

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the backbone everything that we care for,
humanitarian causes and things that we

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fight for

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It is everything you use the Internet
for

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History tells us we need to watch the watchers

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In the surveillance state democracy itself is dead

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It makes a mockery of our
system of government

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which is based on the notion of independent
branches of government

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including a 4th Estate, the press. -A free
society

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should not have secret laws. It doesn't
have to present

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this false trade-off between security or
privacy.

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We need to bring NSA activity from
the shadows into the light of day

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We need to end mass suspicionless

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surveillance.

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