daveonhols

I think it's pretty obvious for what purpose the leaks were done for, and that it was done in the public interest. People have the right to know when someone like James Clapper is lying to the US Senate Select Committee that is supposed to oversee their work.

The spreadsheet you are leaking from apparently contains 7485 email addresses. You have written many times in the past about the relationship between the criminal justice system and Muslim Americans post 9/11. How did you decide which five to focus on for this report, and how would you address concerns that the five are specifically picked by yourselves and may not be indicative of the sorts of people making up the rest of the list?

First they came ... is a famous poem attributed to Martin Niemöller, it begins

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist.

You have spoken I think about how marginalised groups are predominently at risk for this sort of government encroachment on their freedoms. To what extent do you think NSA targetting of Muslims is potentially the tip of an iceberg, or the start of a process that could turn into something bigger?

Are there any other groups, apart from Muslims, that you fear are particularly at risk of being targetted in this way.

Just reading the article, this is mind blowing stuff:

"Pentagon training materials [...] went as far to suggest the need for total war against the world's 1.4 billion Muslims and the nuclear destruction of the Islamic holy sites at Mecca and Medina."

Is it dissapointing that more tech companies didn't join the suit or aren't filing against the NSA for spying and hacking? I am thinking Google, Apple, the SIM card company for example