Θυμάστε την NSA; Ο Ιούνιος του 2013 ήταν ο μήνας που άλλαξε τον τρόπο που βλέπουμε το διαδίκτυο. Ήταν ο μήνας που ο Edward Joseph Snowden άρχισε να δίνει στον κόσμο λεπτομερείς περιγραφές για τα programs of NSA mass surveillance. 
The scandal that broke out put too many in a difficult situation. The initial denial of responsibility at the outset, following the continued leak of data, was turned into excuses by services, technology companies and the US government, trying to reassure the online community.
In the end, there was the acceptance of responsibility by the NSA, which essentially stated that mass follow-up is being done for our sake as a self-appointed authority to protect the global community.
Since then, Congress has been trying to learn more about these NSA surveillance programs, and it seems it has not succeeded.
In a letter delivered yesterday to National Intelligence Director James Clapper, a group of 14 lawmakers (eight Democrats and six Republicans) have asked to learn how many Americans have been collected data in accordance with Article 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
Article 702 is the legal justification for many of NSA's most invasive programs, such as PRISM that we know about its existence by 2013, but we still do not know what its scope is. So, Congress asked to learn.
Even before Snowden, congressional members were asking for details of how 702 is used. Of course NSA has never responded.
It is worth recalling that the last time Congress tried to make an intelligence service accountable for its actions, the CIA invaded literally on the computers of congressional senators, in a blatant infringement of democratic rules for which the agency still faces no impact.
The fact shows that the government bodies are no longer able to keep these services accountable for anything. They act as authoritarian regimes embedded in a nominally democratic state.
