Paul Craig Roberts: "A New Beginning Without Washington's Sanctimonious Mask", 25 June 2013.

 "Hong Kong kept Snowden’s whereabouts secret so that an amerikan black-op strike or a drone could not be sent to murder him."

"With Hong Kong, China, Russia, Ecuador, and Cuba refusing to obey the Stasi’s orders, Washington is flailing around making a total fool of itself and its media prostitutes."

"The NSA is in position to blackmail everyone in the House and Senate, in the White House itself, in all the corporations, the universities, the media, every organization at home and abroad, who has anything to hide."

"Let’s quit calling the NSA the National Security Agency. Clearly, NSA is a threat to the security of every person in the entire world. Let’s call the NSA what it really is--the National Stasi Agency, the largest collection of Gestapo in human history."

The Guardian: "GCHQ Taps Fibre-Optic Cables for Secret Access to World's Commuication", 21 June 2013.

 "British spy agency collects and stores vast quantities of global email messages, Facebook posts, internet histories and calls, and shares them with NSA, latest documents from Edward Snowden reveal."

 The Guardian: "Mastering the Internet : How GCHQ Set Out to Spy on the World Wide Web", 21 June 2013.

"Project Tempora – the evolution of a secret programme to capture vast amounts of web and phone data"

William Binney, a 32-year National Security Agency veteran, the former Head of the NSA’s Global Digital Data Gathering Program, and a very highly-regarded cryptographer:

"They’re making themselves dysfunctional by collecting all of this data... they’re putting an extra burden on all of their analysts. It’s not something that’s going to help them; it’s something that’s burdensome. There are ways to do the analysis properly, but they don’t really want the solution because if they got it, they wouldn’t be able to keep demanding the money to solve it. I call it their business statement, “Keep the problems going so the money keeps flowing.” It’s all about contracts and money."

Professor Jonathan Turley, J.B. and Maurice C. Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University:

"...privacy is dying in the United States by a thousand papercuts from countless new laws and surveillance systems. Before we plunge ahead in creating a fishbowl society of surveillance, we might want to ask whether such new measures or devices will actually make us safer or just make us appear safer."

Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (1975-1978), asks: What is the US government's agenda? The US government, he says, has been spying on its citizens for years in violation of the Constitution, and yet most people remain unconcerned, thanks in large measure to a government-controlled media that spins everything according to offical diktat.

"The latest whistle blower, Edward Snowden, has sought refuge in Hong Kong, which has a better record of protecting free speech than the US government."

"If Washington and its presstitutes can convince Americans that courageous people, who are trying to inform Americans that their historic rights are disappearing into a police state, are espionage agents of foreign powers, America can continue to be subverted by its own government."

"A US editor has alleged he overheard security officials saying that the NSA leaker, and the Guardian columnist who broke his story, should be “disappeared.” Leaker Edward Snowden said that American spies often prefer silencing targets over due process." (RT)