The proposal of the president of USA Barack Obama to end the collection of phone data from the NSA did not go unnoticed by him Edward Snowden.
The whistleblower who leaked top-secret documents exposing the NSA's surveillance programs released a statement Tuesday, shortly after Obama announced an end to the controversial collection programs. data by the US Security Service. Snowden called Obama's plans a "turning point" that marks "the beginning of a new effort to reclaim our rights from the NSA, and restore our rights together at the table of government."
"President Obama has now confirmed that these mass surveillance programs, which were a secret kept from the public, are in fact redundant and must be stopped," Snowden said in a statement written and published by the American Civil Liberties Union. which represents him and advises him.
Below is Snowden's complete statement:
I believed that if the NSA's unconstitutional mass surveillance against the Americans became known, it would not be able to survive the examination of the courts, Congress, and people.
The first open dispute in court who will ever judge these programs, will call them "Orwellian" and "probably unconstitutional". The USA FREEDOM Act, and Congress is reviewing the track record, albeit for incomplete reforms. President Obama has now confirmed that these mass surveillance programs, a secret kept from the public, are in fact unnecessary and should be ended.
This is a turning point, and marks the beginning of a new effort to claim our rights from the NSA and to re-establish them together at the same table as the government.
