A British political commentator says massive spying on Americans by the US National Security Agency (NSA) clearly reveals that the US government treats its own citizens with “suspicion and contemp.”
“Eavesdropping on the citizens of the United States and the way the United States regards and treats its own people speaks volumes for the Obama administration and previous American governments,” said Chris Bambery.
The NSA is “prepared to hack into the email accounts, the social media (accounts) of millions of American citizens and clearly they treat American citizens with suspicion and contempt,” Bambery said.
“That speaks volumes for the United States and the sort of society the United States is in 2013 and it speaks volumes for the Obama presidency which has done nothing to change that situation despite many fine words when he was first elected.”
Thousands of people rallied in the US capital to denounce the National Security Agency’s domestic and international surveillance as furor grows over the US government’s spying activities.
Protesters marched in Washington DC from Union Station to Capitol Hill on Saturday, the anniversary of the Patriot Act, holding signs that said, “Stop mass surveillance,” “Thank you, Edward Snowden” and “No NSA mass spying.”
Since early June, documents disclosed by former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden have blown the lid on a number of US spying programs including one for collecting Americans’ phone records and another, codenamed PRISM, for tracking the use of US-based Internet servers by all people around the world.
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Source: Press TV