(video) Glenn Greenwald: Growing Backlash Against NSA Spying Shows Why U.S. Wants to Silence Edward Snowden — “The NSA is collecting, storing and monitoring billions of emails and telephone calls every single day”

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From: Democracy Now!

GLENN GREENWALD:

“The NSA is collecting, storing and monitoring billions of emails and telephone calls every single day—”billions” with a B, every single day. Once those communications, the content of those communications, are stored in the NSA system, any NSA analyst sitting at their terminal can query those communications, pull them up on their screen, and then listen to the telephone calls or read the emails or listen—or read the content of the chats. Any NSA analyst has the technological capability to do that, exactly as Mr. Snowden said, and there are hundreds of documents, if not thousands, in our possession that prove that conclusively, including training manuals that tell the NSA analysts how to do that.”