Ex-NSA official on Snowden and the U.S. spy leviathan | Thomas Drake

Thomas Drake, who was prosecuted for allegedly disclosing National Security Agency secrets years before Edward Snowden surfaced, says the U.S. government has an “industrial-scale” surveillance system that “the Stasi in East German would have drooled over.” Drake speaks with Reuters defense correspondent Andrea Shalal-Esa.

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