The NSA is lying. They said they were using keywords to look for terrorists in America and that can't be true. But even if it is true, they are not looking for foreign terrorists in the US with their surveillance system.

It boggles the mind that we didn't listen to the Russians when they warned about the Tsarnaev brothers in part because, well, they're the Russians. But we want to preserve the records of every housewife in Des Moines because data mining that arguably invades the privacy rights of innocent Americans might reveal something.
One person whose privacy was not invaded by U.S. intelligence was Tamerlan Tsarnaev, as he repeatedly visited the al-Qaida online magazine Inspire for its recipe "Build a Bomb in the Kitchen of Your Mom."
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editor...ism.htm?p=full

The new surveillance system was already operating and they were already warned about the Tsarrnaev brothers but they ignored them.
So I gotta ask. If they didn't build the system to spy on possible foreign terrorists in the US, then what is the real reason why they built it?
The only other answer would have to be to spy on non-foreign Americans.

I still think Snowden is a traitor/hero but the "hero" part is starting to look more important. Maybe freedom really does trump security and people shouldn't have to live in fear of their own government.
Anyway, it's really cool that it happened because it kinda forced me to think about stuff I never really wanted to think about - politics.
When it first happened, all I thought was "traitor" but now I don't know. My opinion has changed up a lot since then.