In the Guardian, an excellent roundup of the US and EU responses to the revelations from Edward Snowden’s leaks about the extent of NSA dragnet spying on the Internet and phone networks:
The congressional fury came at the end of a day of fast-moving developments.
• In a lawsuit filed in New York, the American Civil Liberties Union accused the US government of a process that was “akin to snatching every American’s address book”.
• On Capitol Hill, a group of US senators introduced a bill aimed at forcing the US federal government to disclose the opinions of a secretive surveillance court that determines the scope of the eavesdropping on Americans’ phone records and internet communications.
• A leading member of the Senate intelligence committee, Ron Wyden, came close to saying that James Clapper, the US director of national intelligence, misled him on the scope of government surveillance during a March hearing. Clapper admitted earlier this week that he gave the “least untruthful” answer possible to a question by Wyden.
NSA surveillance: anger mounts in Congress at ‘spying on Americans’ [Dan Roberts, Spencer Ackerman and Alan Travis/The Guardian]