Why NSA Surveillance Is Worse Than You've Ever Imagined
James Bamford - Reuters
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/05/11/if-youre-not-outraged-about-the-nsa-surveillance-heres-why-you-should-be/Last summer, after months of encrypted emails, I spent three days in Moscow hanging out with Edward Snowden ... He told me that what finally drove him to leave his country and become a whistleblower was his conviction that the National Security Agency was conducting illegal surveillance on every American ... Few people, for example, are aware that a NSA program known as Treasuremap is being developed to continuously map every Internet connection - cellphones, laptops, tablets - of everyone on the planet, including Americans ... He said one of his most shocking discoveries was the NSA's policy of secretly and routinely passing to Israel's Unit 8200 - that country's NSA - and possibly other countries, not just metadata but the actual contents of emails involving Americans.
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