Monday, April 14, 2014

Surveillance Reform

In a news conference, Glenn Greenwald, who is currently in the United States (picking up a George Polk award for national security reporting) suggests that the NSA’s spying system be converted from one of mass surveillance into one of targeted surveillance. Asked about Obama’s posturing on the subject of reforming the program, he says President Obama “likes to parade around as a “King Solomon sort of figure in between the excesses of the NSA and those who are raising concerns about it,” but instead he has presided over “this out-of-control system” for five years, never before having “expressed a single inclination to rein it in in any way.” He says Obama is “one of the obstacles to reform, not a vehicle for it.”

Video:
Greenwald and Laura Poitras Acceptance speeches
News conference

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