Edward Snowden revealed the government collected information from millions of people

without their knowledge.

The NSA says everything it's doing is perfectly legal.

I sitting my desk certainly had the authorities to wiretape anyone from you or your accountant

to a federal judge to even the president if I had a personal email.

In 2013, a young NSA contractor named Edward Snowden shocked the world by exposing details

of the American government's covert spying operations across the globe.

The systems he revealed didn't just target terrorists or foreign governments, but ordinary

citizens, including Americans.

Even if you're not doing anything wrong, you're being watched and recorded.

This is the truth.

This is what's happening.

You should decide whether we need to be doing this.

A year after Snowden blew the whistle, my colleagues Glenn Greenwald, Laura Poitress and

I, started an adversarial news organization where necessary independent journalism could

bring transparency and accountability to our most powerful institutions.

We called it the intercept.

The intercept has been and continues to be a champion of the free press, a defender of

the narrowly functioning democracy we live in.

Our reporting and our commitment to exposing injustice couldn't be any more urgent than

right now.

The first roadstrike on terror targets in Yemen, of course, when you get these terrorists,

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