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“It doesn’t matter what you think of any of these individual whistleblowers,” writes Jeremy Scahill. “But it does matter that we all recognize that this is an attack on our basic rights to information about what the U.S. government does in our names.” https://interc.pt/2EaHArg | The Intercept

The scandal is not some low-stakes bullshit about Carter Page. The scandal is the FISA program itself and the very long and ongoing history of U.S. abuse of surveillance powers. theintercept.com/podcasts/ | The Intercept