Piers Morgan asks Glenn Greenwald about the government's war on privacy

[limpyhobbler]

Glenn Greenwald on the NSA and PRISM: "It's well past time that we have a debate about whether that's the kind of country and world in which we want to live"

On the heels of Thursday's news that revealed government agencies have been using a secret program to collect various types of data from some of the largest digital companies – including Google, Apple, and Facebook – so as to monitor Americans communications, "Piers Morgan Live" invited Glenn Greenwald to offer his perspective.

One of the reporters credited for delivering the scoop, the columnist for "The Guardian" shared specifics of a program that we now know to be called "PRISM":

"There is a massive apparatus within the United States government that with complete secrecy has been building this enormous structure that has only one goal," he told Piers Morgan. "And that is to destroy privacy and anonymity not just in the United States but around the world."

http://piersmorgan.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/06/glenn-greenwald-on-the-nsa-and-prism-its-well-past-time-that-we-have-a-debate-about-whether-thats-the-kind-of-country-and-world-in-which-we-want-to-live/

[Grassy Knoll]

1. If a blogger says so.....

it must be true, I have a chicken who shits diamonds daily, on sale
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[Maedhros]

5. Glenn's credentials are a bit more extensive than yours.

I think I'll take his view a bit more seriously than yours.

[limpyhobbler]

10. It seems like he is daring the government to investigate him for conspiracy to leak classified info.

Like they have been doing.

Pretty ballsy.

[suede1]

2. Love Glenn Greenwald!

Wish more people had his integrity.

[99th_Monkey]

3. k&r ~nt

[SHRED]

4. Will CNN ever do a show about...

...the corporate war on privacy?


Oh...that's right...nevermind.

[DeSwiss]

6. K&R

- They keep telling us. But if you repeat it, you're a crazy CT. That's the beauty of it all. It's a self-correcting system that relies on its victims to protect its existence through incredulity and ridicule.....

''Everybody who has ever worked for a corporation knows that corporations conspire all the time. Politicians conspire all the time, pot-dealers conspire not to get caught by the narcs, the world is full of conspiracies. Conspiracy is natural primate behavior.''

~Robert Anton Wilson

[pam4water]

7. Wasn't Piers Morgan involved the Murdoch Phone Scandal? So for him it's OK

if it's happening to someone else?

[90-percent]

9. Awe Inspiring!

The USA is spying on the entire planet! I wonder what THE ENTIRE PLANET has to say about that?

The treasonous seditious rape of the Constitution is one thing, but what about the multi-national corporations? Considering Corporations have purchased our entire system of government and all our institutions, wouldn't they be interested in the TRADE SECRETS of their corporate competitors?


The possibility there are no more secrets in business seems core enough to bring about the economic collapse of the entire planet! Yet another set of Institutions we depend on for a civil society bites the dust.

The only good thing is the USA will start at the top of possible manufacturing and design technology if we decide to make washing machines and electric appliances again. Woe to all of us if China's main TRADE SECRET is slavery, pollution, and unsafe workiing conditions!

-90% Jimmy