Email Exhange between Snowden and former GOP Senator

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...edward-snowden

Well would you look at that?

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Add Jimmy Carter to the list

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter was in the wake of the NSA Scandals criticized the American political system. “America has no functioning democracy,” Carter said Tuesday at a meeting of the “Atlantic Bridge” in Atlanta.

Previously, the Democrat had been very critical of the practices of U.S. intelligence. “I think the invasion of privacy has gone too far,” Carter told CNN. “And I think that is why the secrecy was excessive.” Overlooking the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden said Carter, whose revelations were long “likely to be useful because they inform the public.”

Carter has repeatedly warned that the United States sharply declined due to excessive restriction of civil rights, their moral authority. Last year he wrote in an article in the “New York Times”, new U.S. laws “never before seen breach our privacy by the government” allowed the.

http://topinfopost.com/2013/07/18/fo...b_source=pubv1

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Shame Carter was neoconned out of office, while an idealist, having a president who had an energy policy before the energy crisis may not have been the worst thing. Also would have been nice to not have Reaganomics.