All of the focus on Edward Snowden and clemency, pardon, whistle blower status or jail misses the real point. Namely, the NSA is conducting what amounts to illegal surveillance on collection of telephone data of persons not to mention surveillance on everyone in the world, including everyday people, world leaders and perhaps even U.S. elected officials. Setting aside for the moment the issues surrounding Edward Snowden’s legal dilemma, more focus needs to be placed on the issue of NSA surveillance. Specifically, now that we have the information provided by Snowden, what are we going to do about it? This week, the release of journalist Betty Medsger’s new book on the FBI break-in of its offices in Media, PA over 40 years ago highlights the point even more. Medsger’s book, The Burglary, The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, reveals the identity of several of the anti-war activists who on March 8, 1971 were ordinary middle class people much like Edward Snowden, and broke into … [Read more...] about All the Focus on Edward Snowden is Misplaced