NSA is now United Stasi of America

The former contractor who leaked documents about America’s digital surveillance operations showed that the US intelligence community has turned into the “United Stasi of America.”

In an op-ed article on The Guardian website, Daniel Ellsberg wrote that the US National Security Agency (NSA)’s spying on Americans and the citizens of other countries on the Internet reminds people of Stasi, East Germany’s repressive intelligence and secret police.
The analyst said Edward Snowden’s leaking of top secret documents about the extensive surveillance of all the Internet communication by Americans and the citizens of other countries provides a chance to roll back what is tantamount to “an executive coup against the US constitution”.
Ellsberg is a former US military analyst who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers, which revealed how the US public had been misled about the Vietnam war.
Snowden, a former CIA technical worker, showed that America’s advanced intelligence gathering capability could at any time be used against Americans, Ellsberg said, adding that the Stasi, known for its effective and harsh methods, could hardly have dreamed of such surveillance powers.
Snowden, currently employed by defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, fled to Hong Kong after leaking to The Guardian the “horrifying” extent of the US surveillance.