Obama administration pledges to continue illegal spying programs
Joseph Kishore: Obama administration pledges to continue illegal spying programs ■ The Obama administration is responding to the latest series of exposures of the massive National Security Agency spying operations by insisting that all the programs will continue, while intensifying its campaign against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. Leaks from Snowden over the past two weeks include the exposure of an intelligence apparatus aimed at collecting all significant electronic communications worldwide, the monitoring of dozens of heads of state using US embassies as NSA outposts and the secret theft of communications from Internet giants Yahoo and Google. These actions, which are illegal and unconstitutional, have provoked growing outrage internationally and a diplomatic crisis for the United States.