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Snowden: "I could have read the private communications of any member of this committee...

• http://www.dailypaul.com, by Cornmeal Smithy
All without getting out of his chair.
From Snowden's Testimony to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE) Committee:
The NSA granted me the authority to monitor communications world-wide using its mass surveillance systems, including within the United States. I have personally targeted individuals using these systems under both the President of the United States' Executive Order 12333 and the US Congress' FAA 702. I know the good and the bad of these systems, and what they can and cannot do, and I am telling you that without getting out of my chair, I could have read the private communications of any member of this [LIBE] committee, as well as any ordinary citizen. I swear under penalty of perjury that this is true
 

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