FBI chief defends US government’s espionage program

The director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has blatantly defended the US government’s espionage program.

The FBI chief also said that the former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is the target of a criminal probe.
On June 9, Snowden leaked documents exposing the widespread surveillance of US communications under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), as well as a separate National Security Agency (NSA) program code-named PRISM that allows the government to access private conversations conducted over Facebook, Google, Skype and other services.
On June 6, a British daily revealed a top secret US court order that allows the NSA to collect data on millions of Americans who are customers of the major US phone company, Verizon.
According to the order, Verizon should “on a daily basis” submit to the NSA data, including phone numbers, location, and duration of all phone calls in its systems, both in the US and between the US and other countries.