Edward Snowden is a man without honor.

[JDPriestly]

75. Actually, it's the elected officials of the Bush and Obama administrations

that have no honor. They promised to uphold the Constitution, but all they do is make excuses to be able to do whatever they want whether it violates the Constitution or not. And this surveillance program which is so broad in its scope and so secret violates the Constitution in many ways -- in many ways that obliterate the very foundation of our government.

It isn't just a matter of the violations of our personal rights. This surveillance program permits the executive to spy on the metadata and the lives of members of the other branches -- the legislative and the judicial branches. That violates the separation of powers concept which is the basis of our Constitution and the structure of our government. That is not a violation that can be glossed over with the excuse that we have found a few terrorists. That violation presages the end of the independence of the legislative and judiciary branches. They are, as long as this program is in place, subservient to the executive branch. This program makes our president into a caesar, more powerful than an ordinary king. Stalin must be laughing in his grave.