This investigative journalist with extensive experience with intelligence agencies along with many others has been reporting on the growing surveillance police state for quite some time. As a followup to the recent dramatic revelations by former NSA employee Edward Snowden, he provides us with an excellent overview of the far-reaching tentacles of the NSA.
Recent revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency is conducting massive meta-data vacuuming of the phone calls and Internet transactions of tens of millions of Americans and, perhaps, billions of people around the world, with little or no effective oversight by President Obama, the U.S. Congress, or the federal court system means that the intelligence agency has become, in its own right, a global superpower.