Greenwald: "The objective of the NSA is literally the elimination of global privacy"

[unhappycamper]

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Greenwald--The-objective-by-RT-TV-Espionage_Intelligence_International_Internet-131002-270.html



Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald

Greenwald: "The objective of the NSA is literally the elimination of global privacy"
OpEdNews Op Eds 10/2/2013 at 14:03:47
By RT TV

The objective of the United States National Security Agency is to eliminate privacy around the world, the American writer who helped expose the NSA's far-reaching surveillance powers said on Tuesday.

Glenn Greenwald of the UK's Guardian answered questions about the ongoing NSA leaks and his source, the now notorious former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, during an online question-and-answer session held Tuesday on the website Reddit.

Greenwald is among the pool of writers who have analyzed and reported on leaks attributed to Snowden since unauthorized disclosures first surfaced in June of this year detailing the otherwise largely unknown operations of the US intelligence community.

~snip~

Nearly four months after those leaks began, Greenwald told Reddit on Tuesday that he believes in his opinion that people around the world now have "a basic idea of the objective of the NSA: to eliminate privacy worldwide, literally, by ensuring that every human electronic communication is subject to being collected, stored, analyzed and monitored by the NSA and its allies."