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“Whistleblower Was Horrified That Government Could literally Watch Your Ideas Form As You Type”
by Business Insider   
June 7th, 2013
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The program detailed in the bombshell Washington Post report wasn’t meant to be publicly disclosed, despite the fact that it had been established in 2007.

A government whistleblower provided the information to the Post because of the chilling capabilities of U.S. government surveillance.

From the Post report:

Firsthand experience with these systems, and horror at their capabilities, is what drove a career intelligence officer to provide PowerPoint slides about PRISM and supporting materials to The Washington Post in order to expose what he believes to be a gross intrusion on privacy. “They quite literally can watch your ideas form as you type,” the officer said.

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