NSA Spying and the Fourth Amendment

Snowden’s Constitution, Obama’s Constitution, and Criminal Law

by ROB HAGER

Edward Snowden is not a constitutional lawyer.  But his public statement explaining his decision to blow the whistle on what he and Congress both know to be only the “tip of the iceberg” of state snooping secrets expresses his belief that, in a democracy, the people – not his defense contractor employers or the government that hires them – should ultimately determine whether mass surveillance interfering with everyone’s privacy is reasonable.http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/06/17/snowdens-constitution-obamas-constitution-and-criminal-law/?goback=.gmp_4122540.gde_4122540_member_251020419