Edward Snowden and others have painted a disturbing picture

of widespread suspicionless surveillance of American citizens

We got a wake-up call just recently

NSA snooping includes the interception collection call detail records

and Internet traffic including audio video

photographs documents chat logs in email

every american's risk for getting caught up in the NSA

dragnet including average citizens not suspected of a crime

We have also learned the large-scale collaboration with Telecom giants,

Internet companies, and service providers. Some concerned email providers have

chosen to shut their doors rather than cave to government's

subpoenas to hand over the existing we've been

misled does the NSA collected any

type at data at all on millions

or hundreds of millions of America? No sir.

We've seen this story before we've had too much secrecy in this country it is

corrupted the government

we decided it was wrong this wrong then and it's wrong now

this is a fearful situation American people

one of the basic rights is the right to privacy on restraining

the only good secret intimidation and harassment

up the essential ability of Americans to participate

freely in American political life will never happen again

Nixon's crimes predated widespread Internet use by decades

Tools for surveillance have never been more powerful

and the threat to our civil liberties has never been greater

Edward Snowden was not the first. I represent

6 NSA whistl-blowers who are being charged with espionage

for telling the truth. We truly as a nation

are at a crossroads. I became aware it was sweeping up

everybody's data indiscriminately

when I was I witnessed who was a subversion of the Constitution, and that

was when the hair on the back of my neck went up

and so I became a whistle-blower

This is our information. This is our information.

This is our information. This is our information. It is the digital archive

have our lives texts our chats with their fam

the backbone everything that we care for humanitarian causes and things that we

fight for

it is everything you use the Internet for

history tells us we need to watch one

in the surveillance day democracy itself

this there it makes a mockery of our system of government

which is based on the notion independent branches of government

including the 4th Estate the press a free society

should not have seen goodwill it doesn't have to present

this fall's trade-off between security privacy

we need to bring MSA activity from the shadows into the light of day

we need to end mass suspicionless

surveillance