<em><strong>Surveillance program that gathered Americans’ phone data was illegal</strong></em>, <em><strong>court finds</strong></em> was an article headline in the Washington Post of two days ago. This is wonderful news. Governments should have nothing to hide. That is, of course, if they're not run by kleptomaniacs and sociopaths and that, my dear, is a whole other problem...
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Seven years ago, as the news declared I was being charged as a criminal for speaking the truth, I never imagined that I would live to see our courts condemn the NSA's activities as unlawful and in the same ruling credit me for exposing them.</p>
And yet that day has arrived. <a href="https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U">https://t.co/FRdG2zUA4U</a>

— Edward Snowden (@Snowden) <a href="https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1301251393832050688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2020</a></blockquote>
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