Senator Ron Wyden's warnings to the American people about the #NSA 23rd July

This is a speech given on Tuesday, July 23, at the Center for American Progress in Washington. 

When the Patriot Act was last reauthorized, I stood on the floor of the United States Senate and said, “I want to deliver a warning this afternoon. When the American people find out how their government has interpreted the Patriot Act, they are going to be stunned and they are going to be angry.” 

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Edward Snowden’s Revelations 

Last month, disclosures made by an NSA contractor lit the surveillance world on fire. Several provisions of secret law were no longer secret and the American people were finally able to see some of the things I’ve been raising the alarm about for years. And when they did, boy were they stunned, and boy, are they angry.

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So, today I’m going to deliver another warning: If we do not seize this unique moment in our constitutional history to reform our surveillance laws and practices, we will all live to regret it. I’ll have more to say about the consequences of the omnipresent surveillance state, but as you listen to this talk, ponder that most of us have a computer in our pocket that potentially can be used to track and monitor us 24/7. The combination of increasingly advanced technology with a breakdown in the checks and balances that limit government action could lead us to a surveillance state that cannot be reversed.

Read more at:-
http://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/blog/post/wyden-on-nsa-domestic-surveillance

Another link :-
http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/sen-ron-wyden-nsa-spying-its-bad-snowden-says?paging=off