on Rumbull, the Free Speech Alternative to YouTube.

First, we are very excited to announce documents from the U.S.

security state that prove that the U.S. government completely in the dark and with no Democratic debate,

indeed unbeknownst to even high-level members of Congress,

converted the internet into a pervasive system of indiscriminate mass surveillance

aimed at the American people.

That first article was one I published at The Guardian

on June 6, 2013, and it revealed a secret order

of the FISA court that required all American phone companies to turn over to the NSA detailed telephone records on all American citizens.

A deeply invasive spying program that enabled the U.S. government to know of every call we made to whom and from whom

how long we spoke and the time of day or night exactly the kind of mass surveillance on millions of Americans

which President Obama's senior

national security official James Clapper just months earlier

had falsely denied to the Senate that the NSA was doing.

And that kicked off that article did months in fact years

of reporting from this top secret archive to commemorate the 10-year anniversary

I will speak tomorrow night to the two people whose work, courage, and integrity were the most crucial to do this reporting.

Our source, the heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden, whom the Obama administration purposely

trapped in Russia when he was transiting through in order

to discredit him and thus the reporting as a Kremlin agent, and Laura Poitress, who had been placed

on a U.S. government watchlist for her 2004 Oscar-nominated film about the war in Iraq

and his film about the work we did with Snowden in Hong Kong, Citizen 4, won the Academy

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