Glenn Greenwald and Jeffrey Toobin went head-to-head on Monday’s “AC360,” debating whether Edward Snowden was right to expose secret NSA surveillance programs.
A federal judge ruled Monday that the NSA’s surveillance of Americans’ cell phone records — a secret program that Snowden revealed to Greenwald — is likely illegal. Snowden, who fled to Russia to escape the reaches of the American government and is still seeking permanent asylum, praised the ruling in a statement.
“How could it not vindicate him?” Greenwald said about the ruling on Monday night. “I think it’s not only the right but the duty in Edward Snowden’s situation to come forward at great risk to himself and inform his fellow citizens about what it is that their government is doing in the dark that is illegal.”
via Glenn Greenwald To Jeffrey Toobin: NSA Ruling Vindicates Edward Snowden.
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