Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations...

[Ben]

Spying on Congress -- NSA scandal gets even worse in 2014:

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/...worse-in-2014/

[BruceBarnes1]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...9b2_story.html
Is it just me but does anyone think that Edward Snowden is behind this? It now appears that the cyber attacks are originating from the former Soviet Union. I think that Snowden may be doing this form monatary gain, as a way to support himself since he has no formal job. Second, Snowden is the only one with motive and knowledge to plan and execute something of this nature.

[trish]

It's just you.

[martin48]

What's been the reaction to Snowden's revelations in the US? In the UK, it is all very muted.

[broncofan]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/busine...9b2_story.html
Is it just me but does anyone think that Edward Snowden is behind this?

Have you found anyone who agrees with you?

[Ben]

Obama announces reforms to NSA surveillance programs:

[Ben]

Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...llance-remains

[Ben]

NSA defenders’ shameless “national security” bait and switch:

http://www.salon.com/2014/01/16/nsa_...witch_partner/

[notdrunk]

What's been the reaction to Snowden's revelations in the US? In the UK, it is all very muted.

Not a major scandal like Watergate. Personally, I don't applaud what he is doing. I will give you some examples of why:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...1fc_print.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...972_story.html

What is the point of releasing the information in those links?

[martin48]

While Snowden’s generated headlines around the world and had a huge diplomatic fall-out, there has been little in the way of reaction from the authorities in Britain.

"Snowden, the most significant whistleblower of modern times, briefly amused London when he turned scarlet pimpernel in the summer," writes Simon Jenkins in The Guardian (which carries the leaks and is a liberal paper) "But the British establishment cannot get excited. It hates whistleblowers, regarding them as not proper chaps."

Even the storm over the arrest of David Miranda, the partner of the journalist who broke the story, at Heathrow airport blew over after a few days.

And while American lawmakers were shocked to discover that the state was looking at its citizens' phone records and other data, there appears to have been little concern in UK Government. "Nothing better illustrates the gulf that sometimes opens between British and American concepts of democracy," Jenkins says.

Indeed Jenkins compares our government's reaction to that of the USSR. "While Washington has been tearing itself apart, dismissive remarks by William Hague in the Commons and Lady Warsi in the Lords could have passed muster in Andropov's supreme soviet."

All we are told “National Security” is at stake, our guys (GCHQ) never do anything wrong (we know ‘cos they said so.), and that’s about it.