Edward Snowden is a courageous American hero and will be remembered as one, long after the war on terror is replaced by some other pretext for violating Americans constitutional rights and the rest of the worlds national sovereignty and privacy, and sometimes security. He won his first major legal victory on December 16 when a Federal District Court ruled that the NSAs collection of Americans phone records that Snowden first exposed was probably unconstitutional. Its unfortunate that even most of the critical reporting on our national surveillance state still frames the abuses that Snowden revealed as a result of over-zealous...
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