John Oliver just exposed a very big lie surrounding Edward Snowden

[Blue_Tires]

Former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden spoke with HBO's John Oliver in Moscow recently, and one exchange stood out amid the discussion of Hot Pockets and nude photos.

"How many of those documents have you actually read?" Oliver asked, referring to the estimated 200,000 NSA documents Snowden stole and turned over to journalists in Hong Kong.

"I have evaluated all of the documents in the archive," Snowden replied.

"You've read every single one?"

"Well, I do understand what I turned over."

http://www.businessinsider.com/snowden-and-john-oliver-2015-4

[grasswire]

1. I hate to click on your click bait thread...

....but don't you know that was not a lie? That was a legal strategy.

Please proceed.

[Renew Deal]

2. I thought the lie that was exposed was that he couldn't get a fair trial

That shouldn't be a problem considering how few people know who he is and exactly what he did.

[Fumesucker]

3. U.S. secretly tracked billions of calls for decades

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141061139

Source: USA Today

The U.S. government started keeping secret records of Americans' international telephone calls nearly a decade before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, harvesting billions of calls in a program that provided a blueprint for the far broader National Security Agency surveillance that followed.

For more than two decades, the Justice Department and the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed logs of virtually all telephone calls from the USA to as many as 116 countries linked to drug trafficking, current and former officials involved with the operation said. The targeted countries changed over time but included Canada, Mexico and most of Central and South America.

Federal investigators used the call records to track drug cartels' distribution networks in the USA, allowing agents to detect previously unknown trafficking rings and money handlers. They also used the records to help rule out foreign ties to the bombing in 1995 of a federal building in Oklahoma City and to identify U.S. suspects in a wide range of other investigations.

The Justice Department revealed in January that the DEA had collected data about calls to "designated foreign countries." But the history and vast scale of that operation have not been disclosed until now.

[RobertEarl]

4. They also spied on Obama

MOFOs spied on a US Senator! No one is safe from the private contractors, or their govt. bosses who outright lied to congress and the American people.

[stonecutter357]

5. K&R!

[BlueStreak]

6. What difference does it make? Did the info reveal deep structural problems or didn't it?

What difference does it make if Snowden didn't read every single word?

[yurbud]

7. personal attacks instead of arguing on substance stinks of MSM non-news