"I see what was going on in the city," he said in reference to the surveillance.
In reference to one surveillance system – Boundless Informant – that he said allowed the NSA to track data it was accumulating, he said: "The NSA lied about the existence of this tool to Congress and to specific congressmen in response to previous inquiries about their surveillance activities".
As anchors read reports on Mr. Snowden's case on a popular news program Monday night, a vivid blue-and-red backdrop read "Betray Snowden — Betray Freedom" and showed President Obama wearing headphones, a visual reference to the surveillance programs Mr. Snowden has revealed.
"The best way to defend against it," Snowden said, in reference to the surveillance apparatus, "is to make sure you do not collect information, as a business, that you do not need".
And there are plenty of intriguing references to intrusive surveillance and technical operations.
Rogers and Ruppersberger have scheduled a press conference on Tuesday morning to discuss what they described in a release as "Fisa improvement legislation" – a reference to the seminal Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, which their bill would amend.
Still, his was an "Oi, oi, I'm one of the lads – honest!" kind of nationalism; in a 2014 Mail On Sunday article he literally compares British values to "fish 'n' chips, football and the Union Jack", before tacking on a cheeky reference to ramping up school surveillance.
They found it in what the document nebulously refers to as a Pen Register/Trap and Trace Order – a reference to devices traditionally used by surveillance officials to record the incoming and outgoing calls made and received by a telephone.
