WGEA 1150 AM Geneva, Online WGEA 1150 AM Geneva Radio internet, WGEA 1150 AM Geneva USA Radio CNN has reached out to multiple sources to confirm the story Radio How is that for mainstream media, Glenn? They can't shut this down now, we've got four days more days of it. They have no idea what they're in store for. It's fantastic. Another explosive article, has just appeared, this time in the Washington Post. It's breaking news that it reveals another broad and secret U.S. government surveillance program. The Washington Post and the Guardian in London reporting that the NSA and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading internet companies including Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple. The Post says they're extracting audio, video, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track a person's movements and contacts over time. FRIDAY, June , In the abstract, you can complain about ‘Big Brother’ and how this is a potential program run amok, but when you actually look at the details, then I think we’ve struck the right balance. U.S. President Barack Obama staunchly defends U.S. government programs insisting that they were conducted with broad safeguards to protect against abuse. He reached the conclusion that what was happening inside this really secretive agency was very threatening and menacing to privacy rights, to Internet freedom, to basic political liberty. Not only in the United States but all around the world. And he felt it was his duty as a human being to disclose it. My name is Ed Snowden. I'm years old. I work for Booz Allen Hamilton. as an infrastructure analyst for NSA in Hawaii. Well, you can't come forward against the most powerful intelligence agencies in the world without expecting to have some risk. They're just such powerful adversaries. No one can meaningfully oppose them. If they wanna get you, they will get you in time. The kid did it. Radio get worse for the next generation, if they extend the capabilities of this sort of architecture of oppression. Then you realize that you might willing to accept any risk as long as the public is able to make their own decision about how this is applied. Because, even if you haven't done anything wrong, you're being watched. I had access to the entire intelligence community. So if I had wanted to harm the U.S. Radio you could shut down the entire surveillance system in an afternoon. But that was never my intention, and I think anybody that's making that argument They have to think. If they were in my position Living in Hawaii, in paradise, making a ton of money, what would it take, to make you leave everything behind? The fear that I've had most in regards to the outcome for America with these disclosures is that nothing will change in the coming months, and the coming years, it will just get worse. And then, eventually, at some point some new leader will be elected who flips the switch and the people won't be able to do anything by that point to oppose it. And it'll be turnkey tyranny. How you holdin' up? Yeah, I'll be fine. You guys have to start watching after yourselves now. You know, if you have any reason to believe that you're about to be raided or intercepted or breached in any way, you format and destroy all the data immediately. You have the encrypted backups. Now I Radio I no longer have any access to these files, myself. You guys have them all. Keep the focus on the stories. That's all that matters. If you'll excuse me, it's Radio We should all get some rest. We could use it. Yeah, I should probably lay down in a soft bed, while I still have one available, right? Rest well. Thank you. See you tomorrow. Good night. Can you at least tell me where you're going? Listen, I know that I Radio Shh. MONDAY, June , Ewen, I'm on the second floor. I don't see Tibbo. No, no-no, wait, I think I see him. . There's press swarming all over the hotel. Yeah, I don't know. I'll figure it out and I'll stop them with a press conference or something. Look, we really appreciate this you're one of the best lawyers in Hong Kong. We're gonna take him to the UN first, then I prefer