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

Reuters TV 

Published on Jun 11, 2013

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.