Amy Goodman
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"Edward Snowden Has Done This Country A Service": ACLU Praises Leaker For Kickstarting NSA Debate
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5:34Now PlayingAs Edward Snowden's father, Lon, arrives in Moscow to try to visit his son, we speak to American Civil Liberties Union Executive Director Anthony Romero about Snowden and the significance of his leaks about the National Security Agency. "Edward Snowden has done this country a service," Romero says. "He has kickstarted a debate that we didn't have. This debate was anemic." Hossam Bahgat of the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights adds, "We are all affected by the NSA program. We cannot do our work in Egypt, in Canada or Israel or Kenya when we cannot communicate, when we know our emails could be intercepted by the United States security apparatus."
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