Secret US flight flew over Scottish airspace to capture Snowden

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83. Is anyone harmed when the gov't universally spies on its citizens, profiles them, and retains their

communications? The authors of the Bill of Rights would certainly have thought so.

As for Snowden and others who work with TS/SCI clearances for NSA and CIA and their contractors, they certainly know the gov't routinely breaks the law. It's just another day at the office for them. The other national security whistleblowers who have come forward attest to that culture of lawlessness and expediency with civil liberties that's come into being since 9/11.

I would say that the NSA and other IC agencies have done themselves and the Executive Branch enormous harm. Snowden merely revealed the details of that and confirmed the hideous truth that many of us already understood about the State surveillance in America. Because it is never any accountability for those involved, it only gets worse. Because it really doesn't work very well to protect us, the surveillance state will inevitably take much more severe, sophisticated forms of repression after the next attacks. Will anyone be harmed by that? Ask yourself that question.