Glenn Greenwald: The crux of the NSA story in one phrase: ‘collect it all’

“The Washington Post this morning has a long profile of Gen. Keith Alexander, director the NSA, and it highlights the crux of the NSA stories, the reason Edward Snowden sacrificed his liberty to come forward, and the obvious focal point for any responsible or half-way serious journalists covering this story. It helpfully includes that crux right in the headline, in a single phrase.  What does ‘collect it all’ mean? Exactly what it says; the Post explains how Alexander took a ‘collect it all’ surveillance approach originally directed at Iraqis in the middle of a war, and thereafter transferred it so that it is now directed at the US domestic population as well as the global one.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/15/crux-nsa-collect-it-all

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